Table 1.
Survey respondents’ characteristics and perceptions around routine vaccination in the context of COVID-19, April–June 2020 (survey 1) and September 2020 (survey 2)
| Survey 1 n=424 |
Survey 2 n=141 |
|
| n (%) | n (%) | |
| Medical specialty | ||
| Paediatrician or primary care physician | 408 (96.2) | 136 (96.5) |
| Public health researcher/policy worker | 5 (1.2) | 3 (2.1) |
| Missing | 11 (2.6) | 2 (1.4) |
| Participated in survey 1 | N/A | 60 (42.6) |
| Institution/organisation type | ||
| Public | 32 (7.5) | 28 (19.8) |
| Private | 369 (87.0) | 102 (72.3) |
| Missing/other | 23 (5.4) | 11 (7.8) |
| Location type | ||
| Urban | 363 (85.6) | 104 (73.7) |
| Rural and semirural | 24 (5.6) | 35 (24.8) |
| Missing | 37 (8.7) | 2 (1.4) |
| Current volume of those seeking childhood vaccines (as proportion of the prepandemic volume) | ||
| 80%–100% | 7 (1.8)* | 28 (19.8) |
| 50%–79% | 25 (6.3)* | 28 (19.8) |
| 25%–50% | 168 (42.4)* | 35 (24.8) |
| <25% | 161 (40.7) | 11 (7.8) |
| Missing | 35 (8.8) | 39 (27.7) |
| Reported barriers to caregiver demand | ||
| Unaware services are available | 91 (21.4) | 33 (23.4) |
| Only coming in for emergencies | 73 (17.2) | N/A† |
| Transportation barriers | 165 (38.9) | 47 (33.3) |
| Afraid of contracting COVID-19 | 176 (41.5) | 91 (64.5) |
| Financial constraints | N/A | 48 (34.0) |
| Awareness and availability of a catch-up vaccination plan | ||
| Yes | 164 (38.7) | 39 (27.6) |
| No | 75 (17.6) | 30 (21.2) |
| Don’t know | 108 (25.4) | 60 (42.5) |
| Missing | 77 (18.1) | 12 (8.5) |
| What is the long-term impact of pandemic disruptions? | ||
| No impact | 16 (3.7) | 4 (2.8) |
| Temporary vaccine coverage gap | 203 (47.9) | 108 (76.6) |
| Vaccine-preventable outbreaks | 137 (32.3) | 35 (24.8) |
| Reduced health services leading to non-COVID-19 illness and death | 116 (27.3) | 40 (28.3) |
*This question was asked to a subset of respondents and hence the denominator was 396.
†Not applicable as the question was not asked.
N/A, not applicable.