Intention to receive vaccine against COVID-19 and associated factors among health professionals working at public hospitals in resource limited settings

Health professionals are among the frontline of COVID-19 pandemic exposure and identified as a priority target group that need to receive COVID-19 vaccines. However, intention to receive vaccine is still matters the extent of COVID-19 vaccinations among health professionals. This study aimed to asse...

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Published in:PloS one 2021-07, Vol.16 (7), p.e0254391-e0254391
Main Authors: Ahmed, Mohammedjud Hassen, Kanfe, Shuma Gosha, Jarso, Mohammedamin Hajure
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Biology and Life Sciences
Bora
Confidence intervals
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 vaccines
Disease transmission
Evaluation
Health aspects
Health behavior
Health care policy
Health informatics
Health sciences
Hospitals
Immunization
Influenza
Laboratories
Medical personnel
Medicine and Health Sciences
Pandemics
People and Places
Perception
Physical Sciences
Public health
Research and Analysis Methods
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Statistical analysis
Target recognition
Vaccines
Workers
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Summary:Health professionals are among the frontline of COVID-19 pandemic exposure and identified as a priority target group that need to receive COVID-19 vaccines. However, intention to receive vaccine is still matters the extent of COVID-19 vaccinations among health professionals. This study aimed to assess intention to receive COVID-19 vaccine and the factors that will determine their intention among health professionals working at public hospitals of Illu Aba Bora and Buno Bedelle zone hospitals. A cross-sectional study design was applied to assess the intention to receive COVID-19 vaccines among health professionals working in public health hospitals of Illu Aba Bora and Buno Bedelle zone hospitals. Self-administered questionnaire were used for assessing intention to receive COVID-19 Vaccine. Multiple linear regressions were performed to identify factors associated with intention to receive COVID-19 vaccine with p-value< 0.05 as cutoff point for statistical significance at 95% confidence interval (CI). In this study, almost half of respondents 217(53.1% [95.0%: CI 49.3-58.9]) of study participants scored above the mean. Attitude ([beta] = 0.54, 95% CI: [0.49, 0.63], p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0254391