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Knowledge and Attitudes of Medical Students toward COVID-19 Vaccine in Saudi Arabia

Medical students are the future caregivers of communities, and therefore it is important to rectify their misconceptions about the COVID-19 vaccine. We aimed to explore the knowledge and attitudes among medical students toward the COVID-19 vaccine in Saudi Arabia and to compare the level of knowledg...

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Autores principales: Habib, Syed Shahid, Alamri, Musab Saleh, Alkhedr, Mudafr Mahmoud, Alkhorijah, Mohammad Abdullah, Jabaan, Rayan Dhafer, Alanzi, Mubarak Khalid
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9027616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35455290
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10040541
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author Habib, Syed Shahid
Alamri, Musab Saleh
Alkhedr, Mudafr Mahmoud
Alkhorijah, Mohammad Abdullah
Jabaan, Rayan Dhafer
Alanzi, Mubarak Khalid
author_facet Habib, Syed Shahid
Alamri, Musab Saleh
Alkhedr, Mudafr Mahmoud
Alkhorijah, Mohammad Abdullah
Jabaan, Rayan Dhafer
Alanzi, Mubarak Khalid
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description Medical students are the future caregivers of communities, and therefore it is important to rectify their misconceptions about the COVID-19 vaccine. We aimed to explore the knowledge and attitudes among medical students toward the COVID-19 vaccine in Saudi Arabia and to compare the level of knowledge between preclinical and clinical years. This epidemiological cross-sectional study of 1445 (47.3% were pre-clinical and 52.7% were clinical year) medical students was conducted at various universities in Saudi Arabia using a simple random sampling technique. The results revealed that 34.3% students did not know how the Pfizer vaccine worked, with a high proportion in preclinical students (69.4%). Almost 37% of participants thought that one could become infected with COVID-19 via the COVID-19 vaccine, and 67.1% of these students were pre-clinical. About 22.6% of students did not trust COVID-19 vaccine information from the health ministry, and the majority of them (79.8%) were pre-clinical. Vaccine hesitancy was shown by about 33.3% (n = 481) of subjects, and surprisingly, almost half of them (48.6%) thought that the COVID-19 vaccine involved conspiracy; the majority of them were pre-clinical (97.9%). The overall response of students indicates a significantly lower level of knowledge and increased negative attitudes of preclinical students toward the COVID-19 vaccine. However, the vast majority of students agreed on the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine to decrease the spread of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-90276162022-04-23 Knowledge and Attitudes of Medical Students toward COVID-19 Vaccine in Saudi Arabia Habib, Syed Shahid Alamri, Musab Saleh Alkhedr, Mudafr Mahmoud Alkhorijah, Mohammad Abdullah Jabaan, Rayan Dhafer Alanzi, Mubarak Khalid Vaccines (Basel) Article Medical students are the future caregivers of communities, and therefore it is important to rectify their misconceptions about the COVID-19 vaccine. We aimed to explore the knowledge and attitudes among medical students toward the COVID-19 vaccine in Saudi Arabia and to compare the level of knowledge between preclinical and clinical years. This epidemiological cross-sectional study of 1445 (47.3% were pre-clinical and 52.7% were clinical year) medical students was conducted at various universities in Saudi Arabia using a simple random sampling technique. The results revealed that 34.3% students did not know how the Pfizer vaccine worked, with a high proportion in preclinical students (69.4%). Almost 37% of participants thought that one could become infected with COVID-19 via the COVID-19 vaccine, and 67.1% of these students were pre-clinical. About 22.6% of students did not trust COVID-19 vaccine information from the health ministry, and the majority of them (79.8%) were pre-clinical. Vaccine hesitancy was shown by about 33.3% (n = 481) of subjects, and surprisingly, almost half of them (48.6%) thought that the COVID-19 vaccine involved conspiracy; the majority of them were pre-clinical (97.9%). The overall response of students indicates a significantly lower level of knowledge and increased negative attitudes of preclinical students toward the COVID-19 vaccine. However, the vast majority of students agreed on the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine to decrease the spread of the disease. MDPI 2022-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9027616/ /pubmed/35455290 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10040541 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9027616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35455290
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10040541
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