Community and Maternity Nursing Health Unit, College of Nursing, University of Duhok, Duhok, Kurdistan Region.
College of Health Sciences, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2023 Jun 19;17:e415. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2023.83.
Religious beliefs may play a role in the rejection and acceptance of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines. We aimed to explore attitudes of Islamic clerics toward receiving the COVID-19 vaccines in a semi-structured qualitative focus group study.
The clerics of members of the Union of Muslim Scholars of the Erbil branch were included through their representative in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2021.
This study found that both acceptance and non-acceptance focus groups approved of the existence and importance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The acceptance group intended to receive COVID-19 to protect themselves and tried to convince people to receive the vaccine. However, the non-acceptance focus group did not believe in the COVID-19 vaccine due to different reasons: (1) COVID-19 vaccines have been commercialized and politicized by the governments; (2) the government makes limitations for the people due to COVID-19; (3) making fake vaccine cards; and (4) several serious side effects of COVID-19 (death, etc.) and not receiving by health care workers. The acceptance group reported that some rumors are spread in our community and impact the public to not receive COVID-19 vaccines.
This study showed that some Islamic clerics have serious concerns about the side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.
宗教信仰可能在对冠状病毒病（COVID-19）疫苗的接受和拒绝方面发挥作用。我们旨在通过半结构化定性焦点小组研究探讨伊斯兰神职人员对接受 COVID-19 疫苗的态度。
2021 年，通过伊拉克库尔德斯坦的代表，邀请了埃尔比勒分会的穆斯林学者联盟成员的神职人员参加。
这项研究发现，无论是接受组还是不接受组，都赞成严重急性呼吸系统综合症冠状病毒 2（SARS-CoV-2）的存在和重要性。接受组打算接种 COVID-19 疫苗以保护自己，并试图说服人们接种疫苗。然而，不接受组出于以下原因不相信 COVID-19 疫苗：（1）COVID-19 疫苗已被政府商业化和政治化；（2）政府因 COVID-19 对人民实施限制；（3）制作假疫苗卡；以及（4）COVID-19 有一些严重的副作用（死亡等），医护人员也不接种。接受组报告说，我们社区中流传着一些谣言，影响了公众接种 COVID-19 疫苗的意愿。
这项研究表明，一些伊斯兰神职人员对 COVID-19 疫苗的副作用表示严重关切。
