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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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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/). |
spellingShingle | Article 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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