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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: knowledge and beliefs

BACKGROUNDS: Vaccine acceptance varies across countries, generations, and the perceived personality of individuals. Investigating the knowledge, beliefs, and acceptability of COVID-19 vaccines among individuals is vital to ensuring adequate health system capacity and procedures and promoting the upt...

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Autores principales: Alkattan, Abdullah, Radwan, Nashwa, Mahmoud, Nagla, Alkhalifah, Ahmed, Alshamlan, Ammar, Alkamis, Abdullah, Alfaifi, Amal, Alanazi, Wedad, Alfaleh, Amjad, Haji, Alhan, Alabdulkareem, Khaled
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9589617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36312593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42269-022-00949-z
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author Alkattan, Abdullah
Radwan, Nashwa
Mahmoud, Nagla
Alkhalifah, Ahmed
Alshamlan, Ammar
Alkamis, Abdullah
Alfaifi, Amal
Alanazi, Wedad
Alfaleh, Amjad
Haji, Alhan
Alabdulkareem, Khaled
author_facet Alkattan, Abdullah
Radwan, Nashwa
Mahmoud, Nagla
Alkhalifah, Ahmed
Alshamlan, Ammar
Alkamis, Abdullah
Alfaifi, Amal
Alanazi, Wedad
Alfaleh, Amjad
Haji, Alhan
Alabdulkareem, Khaled
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description BACKGROUNDS: Vaccine acceptance varies across countries, generations, and the perceived personality of individuals. Investigating the knowledge, beliefs, and acceptability of COVID-19 vaccines among individuals is vital to ensuring adequate health system capacity and procedures and promoting the uptake of the vaccines. RESULTS: A cross-sectional study was conducted from August 2021 to January 2022 in Saudi Arabia. The study included 281 residents to estimate their acceptance to receive COVID-19 vaccination. Around 70% of the included participants had a moderate to high COVID-19 vaccine acceptance rate during the data collection period. The risk increases to about two folds among undergraduates [OR 1.846 (1.034–3.296), p value = 0.036)] and increases to four folds among non-employed [OR 3.944 (2.310–6.737), p value = 0.001]. About 78% of participants with high and 44% with low COVID-19 vaccine acceptance (p value = 0.001) believed the vaccines were safe and effective. The belief that COVID-19 disease will be controlled within two years increased the risk for low vaccine acceptance by about two folds [OR 1.730 (1.035–2.891), p value = 0.035]. Good knowledge about COVID-19 vaccination significantly affected the acceptance rate (p value = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Several factors affect the intention of individuals to receive vaccines. Therefore, building good knowledge and health literacy through educational intervention programs, especially vaccine safety and effectiveness, is important for successful vaccination campaigns among the general population and ensuring control of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-95896172022-10-24 COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: knowledge and beliefs Alkattan, Abdullah Radwan, Nashwa Mahmoud, Nagla Alkhalifah, Ahmed Alshamlan, Ammar Alkamis, Abdullah Alfaifi, Amal Alanazi, Wedad Alfaleh, Amjad Haji, Alhan Alabdulkareem, Khaled Bull Natl Res Cent Research BACKGROUNDS: Vaccine acceptance varies across countries, generations, and the perceived personality of individuals. Investigating the knowledge, beliefs, and acceptability of COVID-19 vaccines among individuals is vital to ensuring adequate health system capacity and procedures and promoting the uptake of the vaccines. RESULTS: A cross-sectional study was conducted from August 2021 to January 2022 in Saudi Arabia. The study included 281 residents to estimate their acceptance to receive COVID-19 vaccination. Around 70% of the included participants had a moderate to high COVID-19 vaccine acceptance rate during the data collection period. The risk increases to about two folds among undergraduates [OR 1.846 (1.034–3.296), p value = 0.036)] and increases to four folds among non-employed [OR 3.944 (2.310–6.737), p value = 0.001]. About 78% of participants with high and 44% with low COVID-19 vaccine acceptance (p value = 0.001) believed the vaccines were safe and effective. The belief that COVID-19 disease will be controlled within two years increased the risk for low vaccine acceptance by about two folds [OR 1.730 (1.035–2.891), p value = 0.035]. Good knowledge about COVID-19 vaccination significantly affected the acceptance rate (p value = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Several factors affect the intention of individuals to receive vaccines. Therefore, building good knowledge and health literacy through educational intervention programs, especially vaccine safety and effectiveness, is important for successful vaccination campaigns among the general population and ensuring control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-10-24 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9589617/ /pubmed/36312593 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42269-022-00949-z 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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Radwan, Nashwa
Mahmoud, Nagla
Alkhalifah, Ahmed
Alshamlan, Ammar
Alkamis, Abdullah
Alfaifi, Amal
Alanazi, Wedad
Alfaleh, Amjad
Haji, Alhan
Alabdulkareem, Khaled
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: knowledge and beliefs
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9589617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36312593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42269-022-00949-z
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