COVID-19 Vaccination
Conditions
Keywords
COVID-19, Vaccine, acceptance, attitude
Brief summary
Despite the global preventive efforts (physical distancing, face, mask, travel constraints, and quarantine) to contain the infection, COVID-19 is continuing with its devastating consequences on health, life, and economics. The world's hopes are attached to a successful preventive measure that is the vaccination which has proved its capability to stop infections and save lives over the years. World Health Organization (WHO) declared vaccination hesitancy as one of the top 10 obstacles for global health. Multicentric study involved Arab countries measure hesitancy of HCWs toward vaccine, it reported the highest rates of hesitancy were among participants from the western regions of the Arab world (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria). This study aims to evaluate the attitude and the determinants of this attitude of HCWs towards receiving or refusing to have their first dose of vaccination.
Interventions
no intervention
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* All staff how are working in AUH and offered to receive the first dose of AstraZeneca & Sino pharm vaccine.
Exclusion criteria
* Those who are not eligible to receive the vaccine * Those who are not freely offered to receive the vaccine
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The rate of acceptance among HCWs who offered COVID-19 vaccine | baseline | to evaluate the rate of acceptance or refusal of receiving COVID-19 vaccines among health care workers |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Reasons for acceptance 2. Reasons for refusal 1. Reasons for acceptance 2. Reasons for refusal the response for COVID-19 vaccination acceptance or refusal | baseline | to understand the causes of vaccination acceptance or refusal among HCWs |