COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among medical and health science students attending Wolkite University in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical and health science students are among the frontline health care workers who are at high risk of acquiring COVID-19 infection during their clinical attachments and future career. As health care providers, they are expected to promote and administer the COVID-19 vaccine and counsel vaccine-hesitant patients. It is, therefore, imperative to assess COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among medical and health science students. Thus, this study aimed to assess COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its associated factors among medical and health science students of Wolkite University.

Method

An institutional-based cross-sectional study design was conducted among 420 medical and health science students attending Wolkite University from March 1 to 30, 2021. Simple random sampling

SUBMITTER: Mose A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8789154 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature