Ali-Saleh Ola, Bord Shiran, Basis Fuad
Health Systems Management Department, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Yezreel Valley 1930600, Israel.
Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 2611001, Israel.
Vaccines (Basel). 2022 May 29;10(6):870. doi: 10.3390/vaccines10060870.
The Arab ethnic community in Israel is characterized by low social economic status and is at risk due to the typically crowded households. Understanding parents' level of awareness is important to avoid new outbreaks.
This study seeks to identify predicting factors associated with perceived susceptibility to COVID-19, and barriers to COVID-19 vaccination.
A survey was conducted through social media, using snowball sampling via social networks. Additionally, -tests, Chi-square tests, and tests were used to evaluate differences between independent proportions. Pearson correlations were calculated for the study variables. Multiple logistic regression examined the extent to which the background variables were related to the intention to vaccinate the child.
A total of 2843 Arab parents participated in the study. Older parents, higher socioeconomic status, higher trust in the authorities, vaccinated parents, and low psychological and physical barriers were positively correlated with willingness to vaccinate children. Pandemic fatigue was associated with less positive attitudes and reduced perceived effectiveness toward vaccination.
Addressing minorities' poor standards of living and physical and psychological barriers posed by the authorities to minorities' access to vaccination may increase compliance with COVID-19 vaccination and protect the health of the entire population.
以色列的阿拉伯族裔社区社会经济地位较低，且由于家庭通常拥挤而面临风险。了解父母的认知水平对于避免新的疫情爆发很重要。
本研究旨在确定与对COVID-19易感性的感知相关的预测因素以及COVID-19疫苗接种的障碍。
通过社交媒体进行了一项调查，利用社交网络进行滚雪球抽样。此外，使用t检验、卡方检验和检验来评估独立比例之间的差异。对研究变量计算了皮尔逊相关性。多元逻辑回归分析了背景变量与给孩子接种疫苗意愿的相关程度。
共有2843名阿拉伯族父母参与了该研究。年龄较大的父母、较高的社会经济地位、对当局较高的信任度、已接种疫苗的父母以及较低的心理和身体障碍与给孩子接种疫苗的意愿呈正相关。大流行疲劳与对接种疫苗的较不积极态度和降低的感知有效性相关。
解决少数群体生活水平低下以及当局给少数群体接种疫苗设置的身体和心理障碍问题，可能会提高对COVID-19疫苗接种的依从性并保护全体人口的健康。
