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COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Azuay Province, Ecuador: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey

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Faculty of Health Science, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca 010203, Ecuador
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Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium
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Vaccines 2021, 9(6), 678; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9060678
Received: 24 April 2021 / Revised: 16 June 2021 / Accepted: 16 June 2021 / Published: 21 June 2021
We investigated the COVID-19 vaccination acceptance level in Azuay province, Ecuador through an online survey from 12th to 26th February (before the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Ecuador). Overall, 1219 respondents participated in the survey. The mean age was 32 ± 13 years; 693 participants (57%) were female. In total, 1109 (91%) of the participants indicated they were willing to be vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine, if the vaccine is at least 95% effective; 835 (68.5%) if it is 90% effective and 493 (40.5%) if it is 70% effective; 676 (55.5%) participants indicated they feared side effects and 237 (19.4%) thought the vaccine was not effective. Older age, having had a postgraduate education, a history of a negative COVID-19 test, a high level of worry of contracting COVID-19, believing that COVID-19 infection can be prevented with a vaccine and understanding there is currently an effective vaccine against COVID-19 were associated with higher vaccination acceptance. A vaccination education campaign will be needed to increase the knowledge of Ecuadorians about the COVID-19 vaccine and to increase their trust in the vaccine. People with a lower education level and living in rural areas may need to be targeted during such a campaign. View Full-Text
Keywords: COVID-9; Ecuador; vaccine acceptance; hesitancy COVID-9; Ecuador; vaccine acceptance; hesitancy
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Jaramillo-Monge, J.; Obimpeh, M.; Vega, B.; Acurio, D.; Boven, A.; Verhoeven, V.; Colebunders, R. COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Azuay Province, Ecuador: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey. Vaccines 2021, 9, 678. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9060678

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Jaramillo-Monge J, Obimpeh M, Vega B, Acurio D, Boven A, Verhoeven V, Colebunders R. COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Azuay Province, Ecuador: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey. Vaccines. 2021; 9(6):678. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9060678

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Jaramillo-Monge, Julio, Michael Obimpeh, Bernardo Vega, David Acurio, Annelies Boven, Veronique Verhoeven, and Robert Colebunders. 2021. "COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Azuay Province, Ecuador: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey" Vaccines 9, no. 6: 678. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9060678

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