Hesitancy towards Covid-19 vaccination among the healthcare workers in Iraqi Kurdistan

Luma, Alhanabadi H; Haveen, Alsilefanee H.; Faiq, Basa B.; Moramarco, Stefania; Leonardo, E.

doi:10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100222

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“…Furthermore, the low acceptance rate of future childhood SARS-CoV-2 vaccines among nurses demonstrates that vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers remains a barrier to full population protection also in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. ese findings were in line with the hesitancy reported in nurses (45.5%) in another study conducted in Iraq on the health staff's willingness of receiving the Covid-19 vaccine [17] and with a recent survey among healthcare workers in Israel (55%) [18]. Similarly, another study by Aoun et al conducted in the Middle East investigating healthcare staff attitudes toward any future COVID-19 vaccine found that the total rate of vaccine hesitancy in nurses was 63.2% [19].…”

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Hesitancy toward Childhood Vaccinations: Preliminary Results from an Albanian Nursing Staff’s Investigation

Gjini

Carestia

Cenko

et al. 2022

Nursing Research and Practice

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Healthcare professionals are important models for their patients since their individual knowledge and attitudes toward vaccination can influence the patient’s willingness to adhere to vaccination campaigns. After developing a structured questionnaire, it was administered to a sample of nursing staff working in public vaccination centers in Albania (December 2020-January 2021), in order to conduct a preliminary investigation aimed at describing knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and hesitancy toward childhood vaccinations. Among the sample of nurses involved in the administration of vaccines (n.64, 92% females), most of them were confident about vaccines and favorable to childhood vaccinations (90%). However, when specifically investigating beliefs, nearly a quarter of the sample showed to be hesitant; 22% were unsure or partially agreed that vaccines might cause conditions such as autism and multiple sclerosis. A high risk of hesitancy was identified in the youngest staff especially when their work experience was below 10 years or when they graduated less than 10 years before (OR: 5.3, CI: 1.4–19.5; and OR: 4.2 CI: 1.2–14.6). Similarly, a low acceptance rate (54%) was detected for future childhood SARS-CoV-2 vaccines among the nurses, which is a sign of high levels of vaccine hesitancy. With regard to knowledge about childhood vaccine contraindications, none of the nurses identified all the ten correct answers, while only 13% answered at least six questions correctly. These preliminary results highlight the need of investigating more Albanian nursing staff’s knowledge and attitudes toward child vaccinations, therefore investing in tailored training. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the roll-out of mass vaccination, the role of healthcare workers remains crucial and needs more support to manage the changing public opinion as well as quickly evolving vaccine technologies.

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Hesitancy toward Childhood Vaccinations: Preliminary Results from an Albanian Nursing Staff’s Investigation

Gjini

Carestia

Cenko

et al. 2022

Nursing Research and Practice

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“…Luma study at Kurdistan-Iraq shows that 475 people (27.9%) reported Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy, with fear of side-effects (41.4%) and lack of confidence in using the vaccine (23.5%) being the most common perceived barriers. 13 In a recent study of Egyptian medical students, 14 90.5% perceived the importance of vaccination against COVID-19 while in an Italian study of vaccine hesitancy 15 only 51.2% reported that they planned to get the COVID-19 vaccine. In Nehmat et al study, 16 less than two-thirds (63%) ofthe subjects were willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine if and when it is available, and 42% of them showed their reservations toward vaccination.…”

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“…This research study was analytical in nature. The questionnaire was created by the researcher, and a few questions were adapted from another study 13 and incorporated into the questionnaire. The period of research and data collection was between Feb. 2021 and August 2021.…”

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COVID19 vaccination choice among Iraqi students at Al-Zahraa University for women

Kazzaz

2022

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Background: COVID19 vaccine rejection is a global issue that most developing countries face. A study of COVID-19 vaccine preference among Al-Zahraa University female students will pave the way to resolving the issue of vaccine rejection among students. Vaccine hesitation refers to a delay in accepting or refusing immunization despite the fact that vaccination services are readily available. Students' preferences and refusals of the COVID19 vaccine were evaluated to determine the reasons for their decisions. Methods: This study involved 198 students from Al-Zahraa University for women. An observational cross-sectional study was conducted at Al-Zahraa University in Karbala, Iraq, to find out which Health and Medical Technology students preferred the COVID19 vaccine. Tests based on statistics made use of frequency and rate data. Results: Most students (95%) were over the age of 19. The COVID-19 vaccine was rejected by 138 people (70.4%). A total of 43 students (28.5%) believed that the COVID19 vaccine may not be completely safe. 49.3% of students were not aware of the differences between the various types of vaccines. Pfizer was the most preferred by 64 (34.8%), AstraZeneca by 17 (9.2%), and Chinse-Sinovac by only 11 (6%). 20 students (16.4%) believed that with the vaccine they could return to life as it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. Covid-19 vaccine acceptance among Al-Zahara University students may be low in part because of myths, and partly because of the fear of side-effects associated with the vaccine. Conclusion: Information about COVID-19 vaccines should be transparently communicated to the media by health authorities to help the public make informed decisions.

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“…Believing that COVID-19 is harmless, some individuals feel hesitant of being vaccinated [25]. Fears about side effects, infections, and being ill, or allergic to vaccination have a negative impact on vaccine acceptance [4,5,11,13,17,22,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. Inadequate reliability and trust in manufacturers pave the belief that vaccination can be risky [23,25,26,30,[33][34][35].…”

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“…Fears about side effects, infections, and being ill, or allergic to vaccination have a negative impact on vaccine acceptance [4,5,11,13,17,22,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. Inadequate reliability and trust in manufacturers pave the belief that vaccination can be risky [23,25,26,30,[33][34][35]. As a part of human behavior, the copying tendency sometimes goes against vaccine acceptance [36].…”

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Explainable Machine Learning Approaches to Assess the COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake: Social, Political, and Economic Aspects

Ahmed¹,

Green²,

Alauddin³

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is considered responsible for the lower rate of acceptance of vaccines in many parts of the world. However, sources of this hesitancy are rooted in many social, political, and economic factors. This paper strives to find the most important variables in predicting the COVID-19 vaccination uptake. We introduce an explainable machine learning (ML) framework to understand the COVID-19 vaccination uptake around the world. To predict vaccination uptake, we have trained a random forest (RF) regression model using a number of sociodemographic and socioeconomic data. The traditional decision tree (DT) regression model is also implemented as the baseline model. We found that the RF model performed better than the DT model since RF is more robust to handle nonlinearity and multi-collinearity. Also, we have presented feature importance based on impurity measure, permutation, and Shapley values to provide the most significant unbiased features. It is found that electrification coverage and Gross Domestic Product are the strongest predictors for higher vaccination uptake, whereas the Fragile state index (FI) contributed to lower vaccination uptake. These findings suggest addressing issues that are found responsible for lower vaccination uptake to combat any future public health crisis.

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Hesitancy towards Covid-19 vaccination among the healthcare workers in Iraqi Kurdistan

Cited by 19 publications

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Hesitancy toward Childhood Vaccinations: Preliminary Results from an Albanian Nursing Staff’s Investigation

Hesitancy toward Childhood Vaccinations: Preliminary Results from an Albanian Nursing Staff’s Investigation

COVID19 vaccination choice among Iraqi students at Al-Zahraa University for women

Explainable Machine Learning Approaches to Assess the COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake: Social, Political, and Economic Aspects

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