Awareness and Acceptance for COVID-19 Booster Dose Vaccination among Residents of Saudi Arabia: Findings of a Cross-Sectional Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design, Setting, and Participants
2.2. Sampling Procedure and Study Tool
2.3. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
Strength and Limitation
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Knowledge-Based Items | n (%) | 95% Confidence Interval | |
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Whether the reliability is checked of the source before up-taking the information | 553 (87.64%) | 84.8% | 90.11% |
Knowledge about the application of sehaty | 602 (95.40%) | 93.47% | 96.90% |
Knowledge about the toll-free number (937) services of the Saudi Ministry of Health to inquire about COVID-19 | 421 (66.72%) | 62.89% | 70.39% |
Aware of the importance of the third dose | 450 (71.32%) | 67.61% | 74.82% |
Aware of any side effects of the third dose | 328 (51.98%) | 48.00% | 55.94% |
Concerned about the efficacy and duration of the third dose of the vaccine | 376 (59.59%) | 55.64% | 63.44% |
Attitude-based items | |||
Proportion worried about becoming infected with COVID-19 even after becoming the vaccination | 296 (46.91%) | 42.96% | 50.89% |
Proportion satisfied with the amount of health information available about COVID-19 | 517 (81.93%) | 78.71% | 84.86% |
Receiving the third dose (booster) of the COVID-19 vaccine decreases my chance of getting COVID-19 or its complications | 182 (28.84%) | 25.34% | 32.55% |
Planning to receive the third dose | 346 (54.83%) | 50.86% | 58.77% |
Would you prefer to take a booster dose if given a choice? | 283 (44.85%) | 40.92% | 48.83% |
Would receive the third dose only if it becomes mandatory by MOH | 439 (69.57%) | 65.82% | 73.14% |
Practice-based items | |||
Vaccinated against COVID-19 | 620 (98.26%) | 96.90% | 99.13% |
No. of Doses received | |||
1 dose | 11 (1.74 %) | 0.87% | 3.10% |
2 doses | 387 (61.33%) | 57.41% | 65.15% |
3 doses | 233 (36.93%) | 33.15% | 40.82% |
Usage of Sehaty to obtain information about COVID-19 | 400 (63.39%) | 59.50% | 67.16% |
Usage of toll-free number | 94 (14.90%) | 12.21% | 17.92% |
Vaccinated against COVID-19, booster | 233(36.93%) | 33.15% | 40.82% |
Awareness-Based Questions | Planning to Take a COVID-19 Booster Dose | p-Value | |||
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Yes | No | I Do Not Know | |||
Awareness of any side effects of the booster dose | Yes | 163 (25.8%) | 63 (10%) | 102 (16.2%) | 0.025 |
No | 183 (29%) | 44 (7%) | 76 (12%) | ||
Receiving the third dose (booster) of the COVID-19 vaccine decreases the chance of contracting COVID-19 or its complications. | Disagree | 44 (7.0%) | 47 (7.4%) | 20 (3.2%) | <0.001 |
Strongly disagree | 30 (4.8%) | 30 (4.8%) | 11 (1.7%) | ||
Agree | 28 (4.4%) | 182 (28.8%) | 85 (13.5%) | ||
Strongly agree | 5 (0.8%) | 87 (13.8%) | 62 (9.8%) | ||
Practise-based questions | Acceptance of COVID-19 Booster | p-value | |||
Yes | No | <0.001 | |||
History of infection with COVID-19 | Yes | 91 (26.1%) | 114 (40.3%) | ||
No | 257 (73.9%) | 169 (59.7%) |
Predictors | N | Knowledge Score | F-Test (df) | p-Value | Attitude Score | t-Test (df) | p-Value | Practise Score | t-Test (df) | p-Value | ||||
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Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||||||||
History of vaccination | Unvaccinated | 4.36 | 1.286 | −1.29 (629) | 0.197 | 3 | 1.414 | −3.4 (629) | <0.001 | 3.36 | 0.809 | −2.79 (629) | 0.005 | |
Vaccinated | 5.34 | 1.09 | 3.62 | 1.51 | 4.52 | 1.12 | ||||||||
Source of Information | Ministry of Health | 443 | 5.47 | 1.021 | 7.8 * (3, 21.2) | <0.001 | 3.49 | 1.54 | 2.89 * (3, 21.6) | 0.059 | 4.56 | 1.12 | 2.227 * (3, 21.4) | 0.014 # |
Social Media | 169 | 5.05 | 1.182 | 3.87 | 1.41 | 4.3 | 1.13 | |||||||
Relatives and friends | 10 | 4.4 | 1.35 | 4.1 | 1.73 | 4.5 | 1.08 | |||||||
others | 9 | 4.44 | 1.509 | 3.78 | 1.2 | 4.78 | 1.3 | |||||||
Opinion about the information | Satisfied | 251 | 5.21 | 1.13 | 3.46 * (3, 79.3) | 0.02 | 3.86 | 1.46 | 23.7 * (3, 82.7) | <0.001 | 4.33 | 1.069 | 11.78 * (3, 84) | <0.001 # |
Very satisfied | 317 | 5.46 | 1.04 | 3.2 | 1.45 | 4.72 | 1.155 | |||||||
Unsatisfied | 34 | 5 | 1.28 | 4.62 | 1.35 | 3.97 | 0.834 | |||||||
Very Unsatisfied | 29 | 5.24 | 1.15 | 4.66 | 1.23 | 4.07 | 1.033 |
Practice Score | Knowledge Score | ||
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Knowledge score | Pearson’s r p-value | 0.160 *** <0.001 | |
Attitude score | Pearson’s r p-value | −0.417 *** <0.001 | 0.023 0.557 |
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Ahmad, M.S.; Almuteri, T.D.; Alharbi, A.O.M.; Tawakul, A.; Alturiqy, M.A.M.; Alzahrani, M.; Almutairi, S.B.; Almutairi, G.M.; Alotaibi, A.S.; Almutairi, N.S.; et al. Awareness and Acceptance for COVID-19 Booster Dose Vaccination among Residents of Saudi Arabia: Findings of a Cross-Sectional Study. Vaccines 2023, 11, 929. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11050929
Ahmad MS, Almuteri TD, Alharbi AOM, Tawakul A, Alturiqy MAM, Alzahrani M, Almutairi SB, Almutairi GM, Alotaibi AS, Almutairi NS, et al. Awareness and Acceptance for COVID-19 Booster Dose Vaccination among Residents of Saudi Arabia: Findings of a Cross-Sectional Study. Vaccines. 2023; 11(5):929. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11050929
Chicago/Turabian StyleAhmad, Mohammad Shakil, Tayseer Dhayfallah Almuteri, Abdulrahman Obaid Matar Alharbi, Abdullah Tawakul, Mohammed Abdulrahman Mohammed Alturiqy, Mansour Alzahrani, Shaden Bader Almutairi, Ghadah Mohammed Almutairi, Aseel Saleh Alotaibi, Nouf Sultan Almutairi, and et al. 2023. "Awareness and Acceptance for COVID-19 Booster Dose Vaccination among Residents of Saudi Arabia: Findings of a Cross-Sectional Study" Vaccines 11, no. 5: 929. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11050929