Department of Social and Administrative Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, 247532Jimma University, Jimma, Oromia, Ethiopia.
Department of Social Pharmacy and Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, 145052Mizan-Tepi University, Mizan-Aman, Ethiopia.
Inquiry. 2022 Jan-Dec;59:469580221083181. doi: 10.1177/00469580221083181.
Acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine by health professionals highly influences the communities' decision to receive the vaccine, because health professionals are perceived to be a reliable source of health information. Hence, this study aimed at assessing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and associated factors among health professionals in two tertiary hospitals in southwest Ethiopia.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among 319 health professionals working in Jimma University Medical Center and Mizan-Tepi university teaching hospital, southwest Ethiopia, from June 30, 2021 to July 30, 2021. Data were collected by a structured self-administered questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS version 23. A multivariate logistic regression model was used to identify independent factors associated with health professionals' covid-19 vaccine acceptance. Variables with -value < .25 on univariate analysis were candidates for multivariate logistic regression. Then, variables with -value < .05 at 95% CI in multivariate logistics regression were considered statistically significant.
Of the total participants, 232 (72.73%) received COVID-19 vaccines. Among non-vaccinated health care professionals, 82 (94.3%) of them stated, worries about the safety and side effects of the vaccines, as the reason for non-acceptance. Factors such as, friends or families diagnosed with COVID-19 (AOR = .086; CI: 95%, .041-.18; P = .001), and attitudes and beliefs about COVID-19 and its vaccine (AOR = .129; CI: 95%, .037-.449; P = .001), were significantly associated with the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine.
More than one-fourth of health professionals who did not accept COVID-19 vaccines require immediate intervention through awareness creation on the safety and adverse effects of the vaccine by the government and other stakeholders. Otherwise, the community may in large reject the vaccine as they trust health professionals.
卫生专业人员对 COVID-19 疫苗的接受程度极大地影响了社区接种疫苗的决定，因为卫生专业人员被认为是可靠的健康信息来源。因此，本研究旨在评估埃塞俄比亚西南部两家三级医院卫生专业人员对 COVID-19 疫苗的接受程度及其相关因素。
2021 年 6 月 30 日至 7 月 30 日，在吉姆马大学医学中心和米赞-提皮大学教学医院工作的 319 名卫生专业人员中进行了横断面研究。通过结构化的自我管理问卷收集数据，并使用 SPSS 版本 23 进行分析。使用多变量逻辑回归模型确定与卫生专业人员 COVID-19 疫苗接种接受程度相关的独立因素。单变量分析中 P 值<0.25 的变量为多变量逻辑回归的候选变量。然后，在多变量逻辑回归中，95%CI 的 P 值<0.05 的变量被认为具有统计学意义。
在所有参与者中，有 232 人（72.73%）接种了 COVID-19 疫苗。在未接种疫苗的卫生保健专业人员中，有 82 人（94.3%）表示，对疫苗的安全性和副作用的担忧是他们不接受疫苗的原因。朋友或家人被诊断出 COVID-19（AOR=0.086；95%CI：0.041-0.18；P=0.001），以及对 COVID-19 及其疫苗的态度和信念（AOR=0.129；95%CI：0.037-0.449；P=0.001）等因素与 COVID-19 疫苗的接受程度显著相关。
超过四分之一未接种 COVID-19 疫苗的卫生专业人员需要通过政府和其他利益相关者立即开展关于疫苗安全性和不良反应的宣传，以进行干预。否则，由于社区信任卫生专业人员，他们可能会大量拒绝接种疫苗。
