Acceptability of Healthcare Professionals to Get Vaccinated against COVID-19 Two Weeks before Initiation of National Vaccination
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Statistical Analysis
4. Results
5. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Frequency % (n = 656) |
---|---|
Sex (Males/Females) | 44.1%/55.9% |
Age (years) | 44.8 ± 12.4 |
Marital status | |
married | 64% |
divorced | 6.10% |
widowed | 0.90% |
single | 29% |
Children | |
Yes | 63.80% |
Years of experience | |
<5 | 16.70% |
>20 | 24.90% |
11–15 | 16.80% |
16–20 | 19.60% |
5–10 | 22% |
Occupation | |
Doctors | 78% |
Nurses | 17.50% |
Other | 4.50% |
Specialty | |
Internal medicine | 54% |
Surgical | 35% |
Laboratory, radiology | 11% |
Working with COVID-19 patients | |
Yes | 48.60% |
No | 38.80% |
Don’t know | 12.60% |
Working in the ICU | 13% |
Financial status after COVID-19 pandemic | |
Same | 31.60% |
Worse | 41.20% |
Significantly worse | 27.30% |
No answer | 14.60% |
Infected from COVID-19 | |
Yes | 10.60% |
No | 76.80% |
Don’t know | 12.60% |
Do you feel at risk of getting infected with COVID? | |
1 not at all | 1.30% |
2 | 4.50% |
3 | 8.70% |
4 | 18.30% |
5 | 21.20% |
6 | 18.90% |
7 extremely | 27.10% |
How vulnerable do you consider yourself to a COVID-19 infection? | |
1 not at all | 9.80% |
2 | 17.00% |
3 | 10.70% |
4 | 22.20% |
5 | 15.30% |
6 | 14.30% |
7 extremely venerable | 10.70% |
If you were infected with COVID-19, how serious would your condition be? | |
1 very mild | 3.60% |
2 | 10.40% |
3 | 13% |
4 | 22.70% |
5 | 18.10% |
6 | 13.60% |
7 extremely severe | 18.60% |
Intend to Accept Vaccination | Not Intend to Accept | Undecided | p | |
---|---|---|---|---|
age | 45.25 ± 12.8 | 37.6 ± 11.2 | 42.5 ± 11.9 | 0.02 * |
gender (m/f) | 78.7%/66.1% | 4.1%/7.1% | 17.2%/26.8% | 0.01 |
marital status | ||||
single | 62.50% | 7.30% | 30.20% | 0.054 |
married | 75.80% | 4.60% | 19.60% | |
children yes | 79.40% | 3.20% | 17.30% | 0.001 |
children no | 58% | 10% | 32% | |
work setting | ||||
public | 77% | 5.40% | 17.50% | 0.1 |
private | 76.90% | 4.20% | 18.80% | |
specialty | ||||
internal medicine | 75% | 3.90% | 21% | NS |
surgical | 80.8% | 2.80% | 16.40% | |
laboratory | 76.20% | 4.70% | 19% | |
ICU | 71.40% | 14.3%^ | 14.30% | |
Treat confirmed/suspected COVID | 73% | 7% | 19.90% | <0.001 |
physicians/nurses | 76.5%/48.3% | 4%/13.8% | 19.4%/37.9% | 0.001 |
financial status | ||||
Same | 74.70% | 3.40% | 21.80% | 0.07 |
Worse | 68% | 10.90% | 21% | |
Significantly worse | 71.70% | 2% | 26.20% |
Univariate OR, (95% CI) | p | Multivariate ^ OR, (95% CI) | p | |
---|---|---|---|---|
gender (male) | 1.9 (1.11–3.21) | 0.018 | 0.98 (0.52–1.85) | 0.96 |
age | 0.97 (0.95–0.995) | 0.017 | 1.008 (0.98–1.034) | 0.55 |
married | 1.3 (0.76–2.34) | 0.31 | 1.78 (0.68–4.7) | 0.24 |
parenthood | 2.25 (1.3–3.89) | 0.004 | 4.19 (1.63–10.75) | 0.003 |
specialty | ||||
surgical vs. internal medicine | 0.7 (0.35–1.4) | 0.7 | 0.75 (0.36–1.55) | 0.4 |
laboratory vs. internal medicine | 0.93 (0.32–2.7) | 0.93 | 0.825 (0.29–1.85) | 0.74 |
ICU work setting | 1.17 (0.49–2.78) | 0.7 | 1.36 (0.54–3.45) | 0.5 |
physicians vs. nurses | 3.49 (1.59–7.66) | 0.002 | 2.79 (1.27–6.89) | 0.04 |
treat confirmed/suspected COVID | 1.45 (0.645–3.32) | 0.3 | 2.87 (1.07–7.735) | 0.036 |
Infected from COVID | 1.24 (0.54–2.88) | 0.6 | 1.48 (0.46–4.78) | 0.5 |
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Pataka, A.; Kotoulas, S.; Stefanidou, E.; Grigoriou, I.; Tzinas, A.; Tsiouprou, I.; Zarogoulidis, P.; Courcoutsakis, N.; Argyropoulou, P. Acceptability of Healthcare Professionals to Get Vaccinated against COVID-19 Two Weeks before Initiation of National Vaccination. Medicina 2021, 57, 611. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina57060611
Pataka A, Kotoulas S, Stefanidou E, Grigoriou I, Tzinas A, Tsiouprou I, Zarogoulidis P, Courcoutsakis N, Argyropoulou P. Acceptability of Healthcare Professionals to Get Vaccinated against COVID-19 Two Weeks before Initiation of National Vaccination. Medicina. 2021; 57(6):611. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina57060611
Chicago/Turabian StylePataka, Athanasia, Seraphim Kotoulas, Emilia Stefanidou, Ioanna Grigoriou, Asterios Tzinas, Ioanna Tsiouprou, Paul Zarogoulidis, Nikolaos Courcoutsakis, and Paraskevi Argyropoulou. 2021. "Acceptability of Healthcare Professionals to Get Vaccinated against COVID-19 Two Weeks before Initiation of National Vaccination" Medicina 57, no. 6: 611. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina57060611