Department of Public Health Sciences (Dr Caban-Martinez, Mr Silvera, Ms Santiago, Ms Feliciano); Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (Dr Caban-Martinez), University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Ms Santiago); Community, Environment & Policy Department, University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, Arizona (Dr Burgess); Department of Health and Human Physiological Sciences, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs (Dr Smith); Center for Fire, Rescue and EMS Health Research, National Development & Research Institutes, Inc., New York (Dr Jahnke), New York; Underwriters Laboratories Inc., Firefighter Safety Research Institute, Columbia, Maryland (Dr Horn); Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey (Dr Graber).
J Occup Environ Med. 2021 May 1;63(5):369-373. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002152.
Estimate the point prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among US firefighters and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers.
A cross-sectional study design was used to administer an anonymous online survey to a national non-probabilistic sample of firefighter and EMS workers.
Among the 3169 respondents, 48.2% expressed high acceptability of the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, while 24.2% were unsure and 27.6% reported low acceptability. Using the "high COVID-19 vaccine acceptability" group as the reference category, the groups with greater odds of reporting low acceptability included those: 30 to 39 years of age (odds ratio = 3.62 [95% confidence interval = 2.00 to 6.55]), Black race (3.60 [1.12 to 11.53]), Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity (2.39 [1.45 to 3.92]), with some college education (2.06 [1.29 to 3.27]), married (1.65 [1.03 to 2.65]), of current rank firefighter/EMS (2.21 [1.60 to 3.08]).
Over half of US firefighters and EMS workers were uncertain or reported low acceptability of the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available.
估计美国消防员和紧急医疗服务(EMS)人员对 COVID-19 疫苗的接受程度的时点患病率。
采用横断面研究设计,对全国范围内的消防员和 EMS 工作人员进行非概率抽样的匿名在线调查。
在 3169 名受访者中,48.2%表示一旦 COVID-19 疫苗可用,他们非常愿意接种,而 24.2%表示不确定,27.6%表示不太愿意接种。以“对 COVID-19 疫苗具有高度接受性”组作为参考类别,报告低接受性的可能性更大的组包括:30 至 39 岁(比值比=3.62 [95%置信区间=2.00 至 6.55])、黑人(3.60 [1.12 至 11.53])、西班牙裔/拉丁裔(2.39 [1.45 至 3.92])、具有一些大学教育(2.06 [1.29 至 3.27])、已婚(1.65 [1.03 至 2.65])、目前为消防员/EMS 现役(2.21 [1.60 至 3.08])。
超过一半的美国消防员和 EMS 工作人员对 COVID-19 疫苗持不确定或不太愿意的态度,一旦疫苗可用。