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Perception of Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability of COVID-19 Vaccines and Hesitancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in India

Background: The current study aimed to identify the perceptions and issues regarding the affordability, availability, and accessibility of COVID-19 vaccination and determine the extent of vaccine hesitancy among non-vaccinated individuals. Methods: A Prospective cross-sectional study was conducted a...

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Autores principales: Ayappan, Akshay, Padhi, Bijaya Kumar, L., Ananthesh, Chaudhary, Raushan Kumar, Mateti, Uday Venkat, Kellarai, Adithi, Unnikrishnan, Mazhuvanchery Kesavan, Dsouza, Jaclyn Drishal, Parsa, Ali Davod, Kabir, Russell, Sah, Ranjit
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9785313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36560419
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10122009
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author Ayappan, Akshay
Padhi, Bijaya Kumar
L., Ananthesh
Chaudhary, Raushan Kumar
Mateti, Uday Venkat
Kellarai, Adithi
Unnikrishnan, Mazhuvanchery Kesavan
Dsouza, Jaclyn Drishal
Parsa, Ali Davod
Kabir, Russell
Sah, Ranjit
author_facet Ayappan, Akshay
Padhi, Bijaya Kumar
L., Ananthesh
Chaudhary, Raushan Kumar
Mateti, Uday Venkat
Kellarai, Adithi
Unnikrishnan, Mazhuvanchery Kesavan
Dsouza, Jaclyn Drishal
Parsa, Ali Davod
Kabir, Russell
Sah, Ranjit
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description Background: The current study aimed to identify the perceptions and issues regarding the affordability, availability, and accessibility of COVID-19 vaccination and determine the extent of vaccine hesitancy among non-vaccinated individuals. Methods: A Prospective cross-sectional study was conducted among 575 individuals for a period of six months. All the relevant information was collected using the peer-validated survey questionnaire. An independent t-test was applied to check the association between variables. Results: Among 575 participants, 80.8% were vaccinated, and 19.2% were non-vaccinated. Among the vaccinated, 35.1% were vaccinated in private centres and 64.9% in public health centres (PHC). In total, 32% had accessibility issues and 24.5% had availability issues. However, responders vaccinated at PHC were having more issues in comparison to other groups which was statistically significant (p < 0.05). Among the 163 privately vaccinated participants, 69.9% found it completely affordable. Another 26.9% and 3.1% found vaccines partly affordable and a little unaffordable. Among the 110 non-vaccinated, 38.1% were found to be vaccine-hesitant. Conclusions: Individuals vaccinated at PHC experienced issues such as long waiting times, unavailability of doses, and registration. Further, a significant level of hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccines was observed. The safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines contributed to negative attitudes.
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spelling pubmed-97853132022-12-24 Perception of Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability of COVID-19 Vaccines and Hesitancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in India Ayappan, Akshay Padhi, Bijaya Kumar L., Ananthesh Chaudhary, Raushan Kumar Mateti, Uday Venkat Kellarai, Adithi Unnikrishnan, Mazhuvanchery Kesavan Dsouza, Jaclyn Drishal Parsa, Ali Davod Kabir, Russell Sah, Ranjit Vaccines (Basel) Article Background: The current study aimed to identify the perceptions and issues regarding the affordability, availability, and accessibility of COVID-19 vaccination and determine the extent of vaccine hesitancy among non-vaccinated individuals. Methods: A Prospective cross-sectional study was conducted among 575 individuals for a period of six months. All the relevant information was collected using the peer-validated survey questionnaire. An independent t-test was applied to check the association between variables. Results: Among 575 participants, 80.8% were vaccinated, and 19.2% were non-vaccinated. Among the vaccinated, 35.1% were vaccinated in private centres and 64.9% in public health centres (PHC). In total, 32% had accessibility issues and 24.5% had availability issues. However, responders vaccinated at PHC were having more issues in comparison to other groups which was statistically significant (p < 0.05). Among the 163 privately vaccinated participants, 69.9% found it completely affordable. Another 26.9% and 3.1% found vaccines partly affordable and a little unaffordable. Among the 110 non-vaccinated, 38.1% were found to be vaccine-hesitant. Conclusions: Individuals vaccinated at PHC experienced issues such as long waiting times, unavailability of doses, and registration. Further, a significant level of hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccines was observed. The safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines contributed to negative attitudes. MDPI 2022-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9785313/ /pubmed/36560419 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10122009 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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Ayappan, Akshay
Padhi, Bijaya Kumar
L., Ananthesh
Chaudhary, Raushan Kumar
Mateti, Uday Venkat
Kellarai, Adithi
Unnikrishnan, Mazhuvanchery Kesavan
Dsouza, Jaclyn Drishal
Parsa, Ali Davod
Kabir, Russell
Sah, Ranjit
Perception of Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability of COVID-19 Vaccines and Hesitancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in India
title Perception of Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability of COVID-19 Vaccines and Hesitancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in India
title_full Perception of Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability of COVID-19 Vaccines and Hesitancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in India
title_fullStr Perception of Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability of COVID-19 Vaccines and Hesitancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in India
title_full_unstemmed Perception of Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability of COVID-19 Vaccines and Hesitancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in India
title_short Perception of Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability of COVID-19 Vaccines and Hesitancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in India
title_sort perception of availability, accessibility, and affordability of covid-19 vaccines and hesitancy: a cross-sectional study in india
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9785313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36560419
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10122009
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