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High COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among Eye Healthcare Workers in Uganda

Background: Protecting healthcare workers against COVID-19 disease is crucial, and COVID-19 vaccination is the most effective method to do so. Eye healthcare workers provide routine care in proximity, increasing infection risk, hence their need for full vaccination. This study determined COVID-19 va...

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Autores principales: Otiti-Sengeri, Juliet, Andrew, Omaido Blair, Lusobya, Rebecca Claire, Atukunda, Immaculate, Nalukenge, Caroline, Kalinaki, Abubakar, Mukisa, John, Nakanjako, Damalie, Colebunders, Robert
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9028371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35455358
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10040609
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author Otiti-Sengeri, Juliet
Andrew, Omaido Blair
Lusobya, Rebecca Claire
Atukunda, Immaculate
Nalukenge, Caroline
Kalinaki, Abubakar
Mukisa, John
Nakanjako, Damalie
Colebunders, Robert
author_facet Otiti-Sengeri, Juliet
Andrew, Omaido Blair
Lusobya, Rebecca Claire
Atukunda, Immaculate
Nalukenge, Caroline
Kalinaki, Abubakar
Mukisa, John
Nakanjako, Damalie
Colebunders, Robert
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description Background: Protecting healthcare workers against COVID-19 disease is crucial, and COVID-19 vaccination is the most effective method to do so. Eye healthcare workers provide routine care in proximity, increasing infection risk, hence their need for full vaccination. This study determined COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and barriers to its uptake among eye healthcare workers practicing in Uganda. Methods: This was a cross-sectional online and telephone survey based on the health belief model (HBM), conducted in June–August 2021. A modified Poisson regression model with robust standard errors was used to determine the factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Results: In total, 300 (85%) of the 357 eye healthcare workers participated in the study with mean age 43 ± 8 years and 182 (60.7%) were men. Overall, 97.6% (95% CI: 95.9–99.4) had accepted and/or were willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, 65.3% had received a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 97 (32.3%) reported the intention to accept the vaccine when it became available. Among the HBM constructs, high perceived susceptibility and high perceived benefits were significantly associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Conclusions: The acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine among eye healthcare workers in Uganda is very high. There is a dire need to make vaccines available to developing nations like Uganda.
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spelling pubmed-90283712022-04-23 High COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among Eye Healthcare Workers in Uganda Otiti-Sengeri, Juliet Andrew, Omaido Blair Lusobya, Rebecca Claire Atukunda, Immaculate Nalukenge, Caroline Kalinaki, Abubakar Mukisa, John Nakanjako, Damalie Colebunders, Robert Vaccines (Basel) Article Background: Protecting healthcare workers against COVID-19 disease is crucial, and COVID-19 vaccination is the most effective method to do so. Eye healthcare workers provide routine care in proximity, increasing infection risk, hence their need for full vaccination. This study determined COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and barriers to its uptake among eye healthcare workers practicing in Uganda. Methods: This was a cross-sectional online and telephone survey based on the health belief model (HBM), conducted in June–August 2021. A modified Poisson regression model with robust standard errors was used to determine the factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Results: In total, 300 (85%) of the 357 eye healthcare workers participated in the study with mean age 43 ± 8 years and 182 (60.7%) were men. Overall, 97.6% (95% CI: 95.9–99.4) had accepted and/or were willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, 65.3% had received a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 97 (32.3%) reported the intention to accept the vaccine when it became available. Among the HBM constructs, high perceived susceptibility and high perceived benefits were significantly associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Conclusions: The acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine among eye healthcare workers in Uganda is very high. There is a dire need to make vaccines available to developing nations like Uganda. MDPI 2022-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9028371/ /pubmed/35455358 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10040609 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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Nalukenge, Caroline
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Mukisa, John
Nakanjako, Damalie
Colebunders, Robert
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9028371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35455358
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10040609
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