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. 2023 May 2;7:e41925. doi: 10.2196/41925

Table 4.

Adjusted odds ratios (with 95% CI) of comparisons within gender, age groups, and health care worker categories regarding belief in microchips in the COVID-19 vaccine, DNA-altering vaccines, and willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccines. The models were adjusted for age, sex, marital status, education level, health care worker category, place of work, chronic illness, prior COVID-19 infection, daily exposure to COVID-19, main and trusted source or sources of COVID-19 information, and level of trust in government information on COVID-19.


“I think the COVID-19 vaccine contains digital microchips,” aORa (95% CI) “I think the COVID-19 vaccine will alter my DNA and genetic information,” aOR (95% CI) “I will take the COVID-19 vaccine,” aOR (95% CI)
Gender

Women 1.0 1.0 1.0

Men 1.4 (0.8-2.5) 1.8 (1.1-3.2) 1.0 (0.5-2.0)
Age group (years)

20-29 1.0 1.0 1.0

30-39 1.5 (0.5-4.3) 2.4 (0.8-7.0) 2.5 (0.6-9.9)

40-49 2.0 (0.7-5.8) 1.5 (0.5-4.7) 2.1 (0.5-8.4)

50-59 1.7 (0.6-5.2) 2.1 (0.7-6.7) 2.5 (0.6-10.3)

>59 2.9 (0.4-18.2) 1.9 (0.3-12.5) 3.1 (0.3-35.9)
Categories of health care worker

Medical doctors 1.0 1.0 1.0

Nurses 3.9 (1.3-12.0) 2.2 (0.9-5.4) 0.5 (0.2-1.4)

Pharmacists 3.0 (0.4-22.0) 3.1 (0.6-16.2) 2.1 (0.3-14.9)

Laboratory scientists 5.1 (1.0-25.9) 1.9 (0.4-7.9) 1.5 (0.2-8.6)

Community health extension officers 4.0 (1.2-13.8) 1.7 (0.6-4.5) 2.2 (0.7-7.5)

Health assistants N/Ab 2.7 (0.1-162.0) N/A

Others 10.5 (3.1-35.7) 2.8 (1.1-7.3) 1.0 (0.3-3.1)
Health authority as the main source of COVID-19 information

No 1.0 1.0 1.0

Yes 0.4 (0.2-0.7) 0.5 (0.3-0.9) 2.1 (1.0-4.2)

aaOR: adjusted odd ratio.

bN/A: not applicable.