King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Pharmacy Practice Department, College of Pharmacy, Shaqra University, AlDawadmi, Saudi Arabia.
East Mediterr Health J. 2023 May 31;29(5):402-411. doi: 10.26719/emhj.23.064.
Vaccination has a tremendous impact on health at the regional and global levels, however, the tendency for people to hesitate on vaccination has been increasing in the past few decades.
We assessed vaccine hesitancy and its determinants in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
We conducted a literature review to assess peer-reviewed articles published up to March 2021 on vaccine hesitancy in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses approach. A search was conducted via PubMed and 29 articles were identified. After the removal of duplicates and irrelevant articles, 14 studies remained relevant and were used for the review.
Vaccine hesitancy in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries ranged from 11% to 71%. Differences in rates were noted for vaccine type, with COVID-19 vaccine having the highest reported hesitancy (70.6%). The likelihood of accepting vaccination was associated with previous individual acceptance of vaccine, specifically the seasonal influenza vaccine. The most common determinants of vaccine hesitancy were distrust in vaccine safety and concerns about side-effects. Healthcare workers were among the main sources of information and recommendations about vaccination, but 17-68% of them were vaccine-hesitant. The majority of the healthcare workers had never received any training on addressing vaccine hesitancy among patients.
Vaccine hesitancy is prevalent among the publics and healthcare workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. There is a need to continually monitor perceptions and knowledge about vaccines and vaccination in these countries to better inform interventions to improve vaccine uptake in the sub-region.
疫苗接种在区域和全球范围内对健康产生了巨大影响，但在过去几十年中，人们对接种疫苗的犹豫倾向有所增加。
我们评估了海湾合作委员会国家的疫苗犹豫情况及其决定因素。
我们通过系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目，对截至 2021 年 3 月在海湾合作委员会国家发表的关于疫苗犹豫的同行评议文章进行了文献回顾。通过 PubMed 进行了搜索，确定了 29 篇文章。在去除重复和不相关的文章后，有 14 项研究仍然相关，并用于综述。
海湾合作委员会国家的疫苗犹豫率从 11%到 71%不等。疫苗类型的差异导致了不同的接种率，其中 COVID-19 疫苗的报告犹豫率最高（70.6%）。接受接种的可能性与个人以前对接种疫苗的接受程度相关，特别是季节性流感疫苗。疫苗犹豫的最常见决定因素是对疫苗安全性的不信任和对副作用的担忧。医护人员是疫苗接种信息和建议的主要来源之一，但 17%-68%的医护人员对接种疫苗持犹豫态度。大多数医护人员从未接受过任何关于解决患者疫苗犹豫的培训。
海湾合作委员会国家的公众和医护人员普遍存在疫苗犹豫情绪。需要持续监测这些国家对疫苗和接种疫苗的看法和知识，以便更好地为改善该次区域疫苗接种率的干预措施提供信息。
