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Willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 among healthcare workers: An online survey in 10 countries in the eastern mediterranean region

medRxiv
2021
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Article Description

Background: Willingness of healthcare workers to be vaccinated is an important factor to be consider for successful COVID-19 vaccination programme. Our study aimed to understand the willingness of health workers to receive COVID-19 vaccine and associated concerns across 10 countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO). Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in January 2021 among healthcare workers using an online survey. A total of 2806 health workers (Physicians, Nurses and Pharmacists) completed and returned the informed consent along with the questionnaire electronically. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS software package version 20.0. S Results: More than half of the respondents (58.0%) were willing to receive COVID-19 vaccine, even if the vaccination is not mandatory for them. On the other hand, 25.7% of respondents were not willing to undertake COVID-19 vaccination while 16.3 % answered undecided. The top three reasons for not intending to be vaccinated were unreliability of COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials (62.0%), fear of the side effects of the vaccine (45.3%), and that COVID-19 vaccine will not give immunity for a long period of time (23.1%). Conclusion: Overall, our study revealed suboptimal acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine among our respondents in the EMRO region. Significant refusal of COVID-19 vaccine among healthcare professionals can reverse hard-won progress in building public trust in COVID-19 vaccination program. Our findings suggest the need to develop tailored strategies to address concerns identified in the study in order to ensure optimal vaccine acceptance among healthcare workers in the EMRO.

Bibliographic Details

Yasir Ahmed Mohammed Elhadi; Azza Mehanna; Saddam Abdulhakem Alnahari; Omar Hassan Alenezi; Bushra Ahmed Alyamani; Ashraf Zaghloul; Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi; Haider M. El Saeh; Diala El Chbib; Zahraa Yahya; Eiman Ahmed; Shoaib Ahmad; Saad Uakkas; Majdi Mohammed Sabahelzain; Arash Nemat; Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Medicine

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