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Attitude of healthcare workers towards covid-19 vaccination
Background: Since the news of development of vaccine in India, there have been many speculations regarding their safety and efficacy. There have been various trial and error treatments since the conception of COVID-19 but no one treatment method had been guaranteed. But with the development of vaccine for corona virus a ray of hope was seen, a hope that this pandemic would end. So, to understand the beliefs and attitudes of people especially healthcare workers towards the vaccination, the 20 item attitude scale was developed and the study was conducted at SGT Hospital, Gurgaon. Methods: The study was conducted on 680 healthcare workers who approached the SGT Hospital for COVID-19 vaccination. The sample included both the doctors and the nursing staff. Informed consent was taken from them after they had taken the vaccine shot and were waiting in the observation room. After collection of sample, IBM SPSS was used to analyze the data, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) and Bartlett's test was used to test the adequacy of data for factor analysis. On getting satisfactory result, factor analysis was done and results were calculated with the help of descriptive statistics. Results: Factor rotation was done and from the 20 item questionnaire 11 items divided into 4 components were extracted. The components basically stated the reason behind formation of attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccine. These four components included positive perspective towards vaccination (5 items), fear of death and convincing by family (2 items), risk associated (2 items) and recommendation for others (2 items). The findings indicated that more than 90% healthcare
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European journal of public health, 2020
current vaccine education is not very effective. We analysed the problem of VH in relation to Health Literacy (HL) and the perception of vaccine preventable diseases-related risks in a sample of parents. Methods: We conducted a survey among parents between February and November 2018. We collected data on demographic, main sources of information, vaccination attitude (using the Vaccine Confidence Index (VCI) adapted from Larson HJ 2016), HL levels(using an adapted version of IMETER and knowledge of signs and symptoms of diphtheria, tetanus and measles. Results: The study included 772 parents, 620 women (mean age 39 years), 48.2% had diploma. The main source of information was the doctor (85.5%) followed by the web(24.2%). The average VCI was 3.78(range: 0.1-10) with lower values among parents informed through social networks (2.05-2.78). Analysing the IMETER test, 90% had a good or acceptable level of HL. No significant correlation between VCI and HL was found. For parents who identified at least 3 specific elements of selected diseases, the average VCI was significantly higher(Measles 4.32,Tetanus 4.64,Diphtheria 5.84). Conclusions: The HL level did not correlate with the VCI. A low VCI was associated with poor knowledge of selected diseases: this confirms the importance of a correct risk perception. This study in accordance with the literature suggests to amplify the model used to analyse the VH taking into account cognitive biases (i.e. ambiguity aversion and omission bias) as important factor affecting the parents' decision making. We aim to expand our work building a survey to categorise parents according their main cognitive bias. This may be useful to understand the better communication strategies to effectively have an impact on each parents' behaviour. Key messages: This study in accordance with the literature suggests to amplify the model used to analyse the VH taking into account cognitive biases. The Health Literacy is not enough to explain the problem of the Vaccine Hesitancy.