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Editor, Senior Moderator
Vaccines (Basel)
. 2021 Feb 28;9(3):200.
doi: 10.3390/vaccines9030200.
Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination among Greek Health Professionals
Dimitrios Papagiannis[SUP] 1 [/SUP], George Rachiotis[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Foteini Malli[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Ioanna V Papathanasiou[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Ourania Kotsiou[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Evangelos C Fradelos[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Konstantinos Giannakopoulos[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis[SUP] 7 [/SUP]
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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 (physicians, 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 pharmacists. 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.
Keywords: Covid-19; acceptability; health care workers; vaccination.
. 2021 Feb 28;9(3):200.
doi: 10.3390/vaccines9030200.
Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination among Greek Health Professionals
Dimitrios Papagiannis[SUP] 1 [/SUP], George Rachiotis[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Foteini Malli[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Ioanna V Papathanasiou[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Ourania Kotsiou[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Evangelos C Fradelos[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Konstantinos Giannakopoulos[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis[SUP] 7 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33670913
- DOI: 10.3390/vaccines9030200
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 (physicians, 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 pharmacists. 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.
Keywords: Covid-19; acceptability; health care workers; vaccination.