Acceptability of covid-19 vaccination among greek health professionals
dc.creator | Papagiannis D., Rachiotis G., Malli F., Papathanasiou I.V., Kotsiou O., Fradelos E.C., Giannakopoulos K., Gourgoulianis K.I. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-31T09:43:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-31T09:43:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier | 10.3390/vaccines9030200 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2076393X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11615/77699 | |
dc.description.abstract | Health Care Workers are at the front line of the fight against Covid-19. The aim of this study was to evaluate the acceptability of vaccination against COVID-19 among health professionals (physi-cians, dentists, pharmacists) two weeks prior to the start of the Greek vaccination campaign against COVID-19. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted over the period 15–22 December 2020 in 340 health professionals in Central Greece. We found a high level of acceptance for COVID-19 vaccine (78.5%) and a high vaccination coverage for the influenza vaccine (74%). Age > 45 years (OR = 2.01; 95% C.I. = 2.01−4.3), absence of fear over vaccine safety (OR = 4.09; 95% C.I. = 1.36–12.3), and information received from the Greek public health authorities (OR = 11.14; 95% C.I. = 5.48–22.6), were factors independently associated with the likelihood of COVID-19 vaccination acceptance. Our study indicates a high level of the COVID-19 vaccination acceptance among physicians, dentists and phar-macists. Nevertheless, several interventions can be implemented to increase acceptance of vaccine among health-care workers (HCWs) and could be especially directed at younger and vaccine-hesitant health care workers due to fear of vaccine side-effects. Last, our results provide some evidence that receiving vaccine-related information from the Greek Center for Diseases Control (E.O.D.Y.) could reduce the drivers of hesitancy and enhance the acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.source | Vaccines | en |
dc.source.uri | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85102679640&doi=10.3390%2fvaccines9030200&partnerID=40&md5=b313165c3b80699d581be414b44f4cb6 | |
dc.subject | influenza vaccine | en |
dc.subject | SARS-CoV-2 vaccine | en |
dc.subject | adult | en |
dc.subject | adverse drug reaction | en |
dc.subject | Article | en |
dc.subject | coronavirus disease 2019 | en |
dc.subject | cross-sectional study | en |
dc.subject | drug efficacy | en |
dc.subject | drug safety | en |
dc.subject | female | en |
dc.subject | health care personnel | en |
dc.subject | health survey | en |
dc.subject | human | en |
dc.subject | human experiment | en |
dc.subject | male | en |
dc.subject | program acceptability | en |
dc.subject | public health | en |
dc.subject | public health campaign | en |
dc.subject | structured questionnaire | en |
dc.subject | vaccination | en |
dc.subject | vaccination coverage | en |
dc.subject | vaccine hesitancy | en |
dc.subject | MDPI AG | en |
dc.title | Acceptability of covid-19 vaccination among greek health professionals | en |
dc.type | journalArticle | en |
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