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Editor, Senior Moderator
Expert Rev Vaccines
. 2021 Dec 23.
doi: 10.1080/14760584.2022.2021883. Online ahead of print.
The road to achieving herd immunity: factors associated with Singapore residents' uptake and hesitancy of the COVID-19 vaccination
Li Feng Tan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Chan Yiong Huak[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Isabel Siow[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Angel Justina Tan[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Preetha Menon Venugopalan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Arthi Premkumar[SUP] 1 4 [/SUP], Santhosh Kumar Seetharaman[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Tan Yong Qiang Benjamin[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
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Abstract
Objective: : Achieving high vaccination rates is key to containing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study evaluated the factors associated with uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Methods: : 676 respondents were surveyed online between May and June 2021. Data on demographics, perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine willingness and hesitancy factors were collected.
Results: : 54.6% of respondents had received the COVID-19 vaccination. Age (p = 0.001), males, (OR 1.7, 95% CI 1.1 - 2.6, p = 0.026), ethnicity (p = 0.004), occupation (p = 0.003)), working in healthcare (OR 6.1, 95% CI 2.8 - 13.2, p < 0.001), smoking (OR 3.3, 95% CI 1.3 - 8.8, p = 0.014), seeing vaccination as a social responsibility (OR 3.8, 95% CI 1.2 - 12.0, p = 0.022) and believing the vaccine is important to end the COVID-19 pandemic (OR 2.7, 95% CI 1.1 - 6.1, p = 0.020) were associated with greater vaccination uptake.
Conclusion: : Social responsibility and well-being of collective society are important values associated with vaccine uptake in an Asian society. Understanding factors behind vaccine uptake can help advise public health measures and strategies to achieve high levels of vaccination.
Keywords: COVID-19; hesitancy; perceptions; public health; vaccination.
. 2021 Dec 23.
doi: 10.1080/14760584.2022.2021883. Online ahead of print.
The road to achieving herd immunity: factors associated with Singapore residents' uptake and hesitancy of the COVID-19 vaccination
Li Feng Tan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Chan Yiong Huak[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Isabel Siow[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Angel Justina Tan[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Preetha Menon Venugopalan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Arthi Premkumar[SUP] 1 4 [/SUP], Santhosh Kumar Seetharaman[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Tan Yong Qiang Benjamin[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 34937504
- DOI: 10.1080/14760584.2022.2021883
Abstract
Objective: : Achieving high vaccination rates is key to containing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study evaluated the factors associated with uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Methods: : 676 respondents were surveyed online between May and June 2021. Data on demographics, perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine willingness and hesitancy factors were collected.
Results: : 54.6% of respondents had received the COVID-19 vaccination. Age (p = 0.001), males, (OR 1.7, 95% CI 1.1 - 2.6, p = 0.026), ethnicity (p = 0.004), occupation (p = 0.003)), working in healthcare (OR 6.1, 95% CI 2.8 - 13.2, p < 0.001), smoking (OR 3.3, 95% CI 1.3 - 8.8, p = 0.014), seeing vaccination as a social responsibility (OR 3.8, 95% CI 1.2 - 12.0, p = 0.022) and believing the vaccine is important to end the COVID-19 pandemic (OR 2.7, 95% CI 1.1 - 6.1, p = 0.020) were associated with greater vaccination uptake.
Conclusion: : Social responsibility and well-being of collective society are important values associated with vaccine uptake in an Asian society. Understanding factors behind vaccine uptake can help advise public health measures and strategies to achieve high levels of vaccination.
Keywords: COVID-19; hesitancy; perceptions; public health; vaccination.