Table 6.
Perceived Barriers to booster dose uptake.
| Number of doses | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All three doses (n = 112) |
Not vaccinated (n = 13) |
Single or double (n = 172) |
||
| Conspiracy theories in social media against vaccination | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 50.0% | .0% | 50.0% | 100.0% | |
| It may alter my body immune system | 3 | 4 | 71 | 78 |
| 3.8% | 5.1% | 91.0% | 100.0% | |
| It may have adverse effects on my pregnancy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| .0% | .0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | |
| My chronic disease(s) warns me against the booster dose | 24 | 1 | 12 | 37 |
| 64.9% | 2.7% | 32.4% | 100.0% | |
| My previous COVID-19 vaccine can help me to get me immune | 25 | 3 | 36 | 64 |
| 39.1% | 4.7% | 56.2% | 100.0% | |
| No barriers | 30 | 1 | 8 | 39 |
| 76.9% | 2.6% | 20.5% | 100.0% | |
| Not much research has been done on the booster vaccines | 29 | 4 | 13 | 46 |
| 63.0% | 8.7% | 28.3% | 100.0% | |
| Religious and personal beliefs | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| .0% | .0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | |
| Any other | 0 | 0 | 26 | 26 |
| .0% | .0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | |
| Total | 112 | 13 | 172 | 297 |
| 37.7% | 4.4% | 57.9% | 100.0% | |