Research Article
Perception of COVID-19 and Vaccine Acceptance among Healthcare Workers
Table 2
Medical history of studied healthcare workers
| | Total (451) | Physicians (156) | Nurses (295) | value |
| Suffered from any chronic illness | 90 (20.0%) | 26 (16.7%) | 64 (21.7%) | 0.204¥ | Type of illness | Diabetes mellitus | 40 (8.9%) | 13 (8.3%) | 27 (9.2%) | 0.770¥ | Hypertension | 46 (10.2%) | 12 (7.7%) | 34 (11.5%) | <0.001¥ | Chronic liver diseases | 3 (0.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (1.0%) | 0.554§ | Chronic kidney diseases | 1 (0.2%) | 1 (0.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.346§ | Bronchial asthma | 13 (2.9%) | 5 (3.2%) | 8 (2.7%) | 0.772§ |
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Statistically significant at value <0.05. ¥Chi-square test. §Fisher’s exact test. |