COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Vaccination intention and attitudes of community health volunteers in Kenya.

ABSTRACT: In Kenya, community health volunteers link the formal healthcare system to urban and rural communities and advocate for and deliver healthcare interventions to community members. Therefore, understanding their views towards COVID-19 vaccination is critical to the country's successful rollout of mass vaccination. The study aimed to determine vaccination intention and attitudes of community health volunteers and their potential effects on national COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Kenya. This cross-sectional study involved community health volunteers in four counties: Mombasa, Nairobi, Kajiado, and Trans-Nzoia, representing two urban and two rural counties, respectively. COVID-19 vaccination intention among community health volunteers was 81% (95% CI: 0.76-0.85). On individual binary logistic

SUBMITTER: Osur J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021929 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature