COVID-19 Vaccination Acceptance and Hesitancy among Healthcare Workers in Germany.

ABSTRACT: Vaccination hesitancy is a threat to herd immunity. Healthcare workers (HCWs) play a key role in promoting Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination in the general population. We therefore aimed to provide data on COVID-19 vaccination acceptance/hesitancy among German HCWs. For this exploratory, cross-sectional study, an online survey was conducted in February 2021. The survey included 54 items on demographics; previous vaccination behavior; trust in vaccines, physicians, the pharmaceutical industry and health politics; fear of adverse effects; assumptions regarding the consequences of COVID-19; knowledge about vaccines; and information seeking behavior. Odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals were calculated and chi-square tests were performed. Four thousand five hundred surveys w

SUBMITTER: Holzmann-Littig C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8310090 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature