Research Article
Perception of COVID-19 and Vaccine Acceptance among Healthcare Workers
Table 10
Relation between acceptance to take COVID-19 vaccine and demographic data of the studied HCWs.
| | | Acceptance to take COVID-19 vaccine | value | | Accept (184) | Refuse (267) |
| | Demographic and general information | Age (in years)
(mean ± SD)
(median, range)
S.E | 32.6 ± 7.9
31.5
22–68
7.9 | 30.8 ± 7.2
30.0
19–56
7.2 | 0.011¶ | | Gender | | Male | 101 (53.4%) | 88 (46.6%) | <0.001¥ | | Female | 83 (31.7%) | 179 (68.3%) | | | Marital status | | Single | 56 (35.4%) | 102 (64.6%) | 0.374§ | | Married | 117 (43.8%) | 150 (56.2%) | | | Divorced | 8 (44.4%) | 10 (55.6%) | | | Widow | 3 (37.5%) | 5 (62.5%) | | | Residence | | Rural | 34 (36.2%) | 60 (63.8%) | 0.305¥ | | Urban | 150 (42.0%) | 207 (58.0%) | | | Occupation | | Physicians | 86 (55.1%) | 70 (44.9%) | <0.001¥ | | Nurses | 98 (33.2%) | 197 (66.8%) | | | Department | | Surgical departments | 30 (16.3%) | 92 (34.5%) | <0.001¥ | | Medical (nonsurgical) departments | 83 (45.1%) | 96 (36%) | 0.05¥ | | ICU departments | 0 (0.0%) | 63 (23.6%) | <0.001¥ | | Isolation department | 0 (0.0%) | 44 (16.5%) | <0.001¥ | | Emergency department | 0 (0.0%) | 26 (9.7%) | <0.001¥ | | The number of household members (excluding participant) (mean ± SD), (median, range) S.E | 3.5 ± 1.0 4, 1–5 0.1 | 3.7 ± 1.2 4, 1–10 0.1 | 0.070¶ | | Education level | | Nursing institute | 24 (29.3%) | 58 (70.7%) | | | Bachelor | 56 (41.2%) | 80 (58.8%) | 0.001¥ | | Diploma | 42 (34.1%) | 81 (65.9%) | | | MSc | 50 (56.2%) | 39 (43.8%) | | | Medical doctorate | 12 (57.1%) | 9 (42.9%) | | | Work experience in years (mean ± SD), (median, range) S.E | 8.8 ± 6.8 7, 1–42 0.5 | 7.4 ± 6.3 5, 1–30 0.4 | 0.002¶ |
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Statistically significant at value <0.05. ¶Mann–Whitney test, ¥chi-square test, and §Fisher’s exact test. |
