Aw Junjie, Seah Sharna Si Ying, Seng Benjamin Jun Jie, Low Lian Leng
Outram Community Hospital, SingHealth Community Hospitals, 10 Hospital Boulevard, Singapore 168582, Singapore.
SingHealth Duke-NUS Family Medicine Academic Clinical Program, Outram Rd, Singapore 169608, Singapore.
Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Mar 30;10(4):537. doi: 10.3390/vaccines10040537.
COVID-19 has culminated in widespread infections and increased deaths over the last 3 years. In addition, it has also resulted in collateral economic and geopolitical tensions. Vaccination remains one of the cornerstones in the fight against COVID-19. Vaccine hesitancy must be critically evaluated in individual countries to promote vaccine uptake. We describe a survey conducted in three Singapore community hospitals looking at healthcare workers' vaccine hesitancy and the barriers for its uptake. The online anonymous survey was conducted from March to July 2021 on all staff across three community hospital sites in SingHealth Singapore. The questionnaire was developed following a scoping review and was pilot tested and finalized into a 58-item instrument capturing data on demographics, contextual features, knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and other vaccine-related factors in the vaccine hesitancy matrix. Logistic regression analysis was employed for all co-variates that are significant in univariate analysis. The response rate was 23.9%, and the vaccine hesitancy prevalence was 48.5% in the initial phase of the pandemic. On logistic regression analysis, only being female, a younger age, not having had a loved one or friend infected with COVID-19 and obtaining information from newspapers were associated with vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers in Singapore community hospitals.
在过去三年里，新冠疫情导致了广泛感染和死亡人数增加。此外，它还引发了附带的经济和地缘政治紧张局势。疫苗接种仍然是抗击新冠疫情的基石之一。必须对各个国家的疫苗犹豫情况进行严格评估，以促进疫苗接种。我们描述了一项在新加坡三家社区医院开展的调查，该调查关注医护人员的疫苗犹豫情况及其接种障碍。这项在线匿名调查于2021年3月至7月在新加坡樟宜健康集团旗下三家社区医院的所有员工中进行。问卷是在范围界定审查后制定的，并经过预测试，最终形成了一份包含58个条目的工具，用于收集疫苗犹豫矩阵中有关人口统计学、背景特征、知识、态度、认知及其他与疫苗相关因素的数据。对单变量分析中有显著意义的所有协变量进行逻辑回归分析。在疫情初期，回复率为23.9%，疫苗犹豫发生率为48.5%。逻辑回归分析显示，在新加坡社区医院的医护人员中，只有女性、年龄较小、没有亲人或朋友感染新冠病毒以及从报纸获取信息与疫苗犹豫有关。
