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Communication

Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination among Greek Health Professionals

by
Dimitrios Papagiannis
1,*,
George Rachiotis
2,
Foteini Malli
3,
Ioanna V. Papathanasiou
4,
Ourania Kotsiou
5,
Evangelos C. Fradelos
5,
Konstantinos Giannakopoulos
6 and
Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis
7
1
Public Health & Vaccines Laboratory, Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, 41500 Larissa, Greece
2
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, 41222 Larissa, Greece
3
Respiratory Disorders Laboratory, Faculty of Nursing, University of Thessaly, 41500 Larissa, Greece
4
Community Nursing Lab, Faculty of Nursing, University of Thessaly, 41500 Larissa, Greece
5
Faculty of Nursing, University of Thessaly, 41500 Larissa, Greece
6
Medical Association of Larissa, “Hippocrates”, 41222 Larissa, Greece
7
Respiratory Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41500 Larissa, Greece
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Vaccines 2021, 9(3), 200; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030200
Submission received: 1 February 2021 / Revised: 25 February 2021 / Accepted: 25 February 2021 / Published: 28 February 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Consciousness and Behavior towards Infectious Diseases and Vaccines)
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Abstract

Health Care Workers are at the front line of the fight against Covid-19. The aim of this study was to evaluate the acceptability of vaccination against COVID-19 among health professionals (physicians, dentists, pharmacists) two weeks prior to the start of the Greek vaccination campaign against COVID-19. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted over the period 15–22 December 2020 in 340 health professionals in Central Greece. We found a high level of acceptance for COVID-19 vaccine (78.5%) and a high vaccination coverage for the influenza vaccine (74%). Age > 45 years (OR = 2.01; 95% C.I. = 2.01−4.3), absence of fear over vaccine safety (OR = 4.09; 95% C.I. = 1.36–12.3), and information received from the Greek public health authorities (OR = 11.14; 95% C.I. = 5.48–22.6), were factors independently associated with the likelihood of COVID-19 vaccination acceptance. Our study indicates a high level of the COVID-19 vaccination acceptance among physicians, dentists and pharmacists. Nevertheless, several interventions can be implemented to increase acceptance of vaccine among health-care workers (HCWs) and could be especially directed at younger and vaccine-hesitant health care workers due to fear of vaccine side-effects. Last, our results provide some evidence that receiving vaccine-related information from the Greek Center for Diseases Control (E.O.D.Y.) could reduce the drivers of hesitancy and enhance the acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination.
Keywords: Covid-19; vaccination; acceptability; health care workers Covid-19; vaccination; acceptability; health care workers

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Papagiannis, D.; Rachiotis, G.; Malli, F.; Papathanasiou, I.V.; Kotsiou, O.; Fradelos, E.C.; Giannakopoulos, K.; Gourgoulianis, K.I. Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination among Greek Health Professionals. Vaccines 2021, 9, 200. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030200

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Papagiannis D, Rachiotis G, Malli F, Papathanasiou IV, Kotsiou O, Fradelos EC, Giannakopoulos K, Gourgoulianis KI. Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination among Greek Health Professionals. Vaccines. 2021; 9(3):200. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030200

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Papagiannis, Dimitrios, George Rachiotis, Foteini Malli, Ioanna V. Papathanasiou, Ourania Kotsiou, Evangelos C. Fradelos, Konstantinos Giannakopoulos, and Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis. 2021. "Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination among Greek Health Professionals" Vaccines 9, no. 3: 200. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030200

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Papagiannis, D., Rachiotis, G., Malli, F., Papathanasiou, I. V., Kotsiou, O., Fradelos, E. C., Giannakopoulos, K., & Gourgoulianis, K. I. (2021). Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination among Greek Health Professionals. Vaccines, 9(3), 200. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030200

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