Abstract
Introduction: Despite global efforts to contain the illness, COVID-19 continues to have severe health, life, and economic repercussions; thus, maintaining vaccine development is mandatory. Different directions concerning COVID-19 vaccines have emerged as a result of the vaccine’s unpredictability. Aims: To study the determinants of the attitudes of healthcare workers (HCWs) to receiving or refusing to receive the vaccine. Methods: The current study adopted an interviewed questionnaire between June and August 2021. A total of 341 HCWs currently working at Assiut University hospitals offered to receive the vaccine were included. Results: Only half of the HCWs (42%) accepted the COVID-19 vaccine. The most common reason that motivated the HCWs was being more susceptible than others to infection (71.8%). On other hand, the common reasons for refusing included: previously contracted the virus (64.8%); did not have time (58.8%); warned by a doctor not to take it (53.8%). Nearly one-third of nonaccepting HCWs depended on television, the Internet, and friends who refused the vaccine for information (p < 0.05). In the final multivariate regression model, there were six significant predictors: sex, job category, chronic disease, being vaccinated for influenza, and using Assiut University hospital staff and the Ministry of Health as sources of information (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Misinformation and negative conceptions are still barriers against achieving the desired rate of vaccination, especially for vulnerable groups such as HCWs.
Highlights
Despite global efforts to contain the illness, COVID-19 continues to have severe health, life, and economic repercussions; maintaining vaccine development is mandatory
The current research adopted an observational cross-sectional design to determine the attitude of healthcare workers (HCWs) regarding the COVID-19 vaccine
The cohort of HCWs were classified as 37% nurses, 31% doctors, 13.8% administrators, 12% workers and assistant nurses, and 6% pharmacists and technicians (Table 1)
Summary
Despite global efforts to contain the illness, COVID-19 continues to have severe health, life, and economic repercussions; maintaining vaccine development is mandatory. Different directions concerning COVID-19 vaccines have emerged as a result of the vaccine’s unpredictability. The CFR percentage in Egypt (5.92%), and, as Dr Hala Zayed, the Minister of Health and Population, confessed, the COVID-19 infection rate among the Egyptians is much more than what the government has quantified. This is attributed to the high numbers of infected cases in Egypt which pass as officially undetected and recovered at home [3]. Views, and attitudes concerning COVID-19 vaccines have emerged as a result of the vaccine’s unpredictability. The greatest rates of reluctance were among participants from the western areas of the Arab world according to a multicentric research study including Arab nations that measured HCWs’ trepidation about vaccination (Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco) [12]
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