Why Don't U.S. Nurses Get COVID-19 Vaccines

Kovner, Christine

doi:10.1177/15271544211053999

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“…To a great extent, vaccine hesitancy among HCWs has been addressed as a matter of system and institutional policy. Health care delivery systems and professional organizations in health care services have ethical and fiduciary obligations to protect the health and well-being of patients and their families, and that of their colleagues and co-workers [ 24 , 25 ]. For health care professionals, vaccines are typically construed as part of a professional duty to “do no harm”; for some health care professionals, COVID-19 vaccines represent an ethical, if not moral, obligation of beneficence and fidelity, recognizing the need for and actively promoting the common good (e.g., the American Psychological Association’s ethical code of conduct) [ 26 ].…”

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Predictors of Vaccine Hesitancy among Health Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Elliott

Perrin

Powers

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Most studies of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health care workers (HCWs) have been descriptive, few have tested models to predict hesitancy, and none have examined the possible relationship between HCWs’ distress and vaccine hesitancy. This study examined predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, including HCWs’ distress after taking into account HCW sex, doctoral-level status, race, age, and exposure to COVID-19. Further, it examined specific reasons HCWs endorsed for their hesitancy. 266 HCWs in the United States (U.S.). completed an online survey administered in January 2021, following the availability of the vaccine for HCWs in the U.S. The survey assessed demographics, depression, anxiety, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and reasons for hesitancy. A comprehensive linear regression model explained 72.2% of the variance in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. HCWs were more hesitant if they did not know someone personally who had tested positive. Distress had no effect. The reasons most predicting vaccine hesitancy included safety, potential side effects, believing the risks from COVID-19 were lower than from the vaccine, not feeling at risk for getting COVID-19, and current pregnancy. Rather than rely on providing information about the COVID-19 vaccines to HCWs, strategies that address their concerns are required to promote vaccine acceptance. Contemporary issues of political polarization, misinformation and mistrust are likely to contribute to the concerns HCWs have about the COVID-19 vaccines.

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confidence: 99%