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Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among maintenance hemodialysis patients: an Egyptian survey study

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality especially among maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. COVID-19 vaccination is important to decrease risk and severity of COVID-19 infection. However, vaccine hesita...

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Autores principales: Tharwat, Samar, Khairallah, Marwa K., Nassar, Mohammed Kamal, Nassar, Dalia Kamal, Nagy, Eman
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9244176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35773749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00434-3
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author Tharwat, Samar
Khairallah, Marwa K.
Nassar, Mohammed Kamal
Nassar, Dalia Kamal
Nagy, Eman
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description BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality especially among maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. COVID-19 vaccination is important to decrease risk and severity of COVID-19 infection. However, vaccine hesitancy is a significant barrier to vaccination. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the vaccine acceptability among Egyptian MHD patients. METHODS: We conducted a paper-based survey on 237 MHD patients in 2 tertiary Egyptian hemodialysis (HD) centers. The survey consisted of a questionnaire that addressed demographic and clinical data, knowledge and attitudes towards COVID-19 infection and vaccines, beliefs regarding both conventional and COVID-19 vaccines, intention of COVID-19 vaccination together with motivators for and barriers against vaccination, sources of information regarding COVID-19 vaccines. RESULTS: According to intention to be vaccinated, the patients were divided into vaccine acceptant (VA), hesitant (VH), and resistant (VR) groups who comprised 58.3%, 26.5%, and 15.2%, respectively. Only occupational status and residency were significantly different between the three groups. In 60% of VA group, fear of infection was the main motivator for vaccination. Meanwhile, 40% of VH and VR groups reported that fear of serious side effects of vaccines was the main barrier against vaccination. Television was the primary information source (58.6%) about COVID-19 vaccination while only 18% of patients got their COVID-19 vaccine information from their nephrologists. CONCLUSIONS: More than half of MHD patients accept to receive COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine acceptability is not associated with age, gender, educational level, but rather with employment status and residency.
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spelling pubmed-92441762022-06-30 Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among maintenance hemodialysis patients: an Egyptian survey study Tharwat, Samar Khairallah, Marwa K. Nassar, Mohammed Kamal Nassar, Dalia Kamal Nagy, Eman Trop Med Health Research BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality especially among maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. COVID-19 vaccination is important to decrease risk and severity of COVID-19 infection. However, vaccine hesitancy is a significant barrier to vaccination. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the vaccine acceptability among Egyptian MHD patients. METHODS: We conducted a paper-based survey on 237 MHD patients in 2 tertiary Egyptian hemodialysis (HD) centers. The survey consisted of a questionnaire that addressed demographic and clinical data, knowledge and attitudes towards COVID-19 infection and vaccines, beliefs regarding both conventional and COVID-19 vaccines, intention of COVID-19 vaccination together with motivators for and barriers against vaccination, sources of information regarding COVID-19 vaccines. RESULTS: According to intention to be vaccinated, the patients were divided into vaccine acceptant (VA), hesitant (VH), and resistant (VR) groups who comprised 58.3%, 26.5%, and 15.2%, respectively. Only occupational status and residency were significantly different between the three groups. In 60% of VA group, fear of infection was the main motivator for vaccination. Meanwhile, 40% of VH and VR groups reported that fear of serious side effects of vaccines was the main barrier against vaccination. Television was the primary information source (58.6%) about COVID-19 vaccination while only 18% of patients got their COVID-19 vaccine information from their nephrologists. CONCLUSIONS: More than half of MHD patients accept to receive COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine acceptability is not associated with age, gender, educational level, but rather with employment status and residency. BioMed Central 2022-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9244176/ /pubmed/35773749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00434-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Tharwat, Samar
Khairallah, Marwa K.
Nassar, Mohammed Kamal
Nassar, Dalia Kamal
Nagy, Eman
Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among maintenance hemodialysis patients: an Egyptian survey study
title Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among maintenance hemodialysis patients: an Egyptian survey study
title_full Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among maintenance hemodialysis patients: an Egyptian survey study
title_fullStr Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among maintenance hemodialysis patients: an Egyptian survey study
title_full_unstemmed Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among maintenance hemodialysis patients: an Egyptian survey study
title_short Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among maintenance hemodialysis patients: an Egyptian survey study
title_sort acceptance of covid-19 vaccination among maintenance hemodialysis patients: an egyptian survey study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9244176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35773749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00434-3
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