Table 6.
Comparative assessment of the concerns about COVID-19 vaccine across the different healthcare professionals
| Concerns | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Do not know enough | Short side-effects | Long side-effects | Do not think vaccine will be effective | Vaccine approved through accelerated process | |||||||||||
| Not/slight | Neutral | Very/extremely | Not/slight | Neutral | Very/extremely | Not/slight | Neutral | Very/extremely | Not/slight | Neutral | Very/extremely | Not/slight | Neutral | Very/extremely | |
| Academics | 17% | 28% | 55% | 56% | 18% | 26% | 12% | 17% | 72% | 29% | 41% | 30% | 85% | 6% | 9% |
| Students | 22% | 25% | 52% | 50% | 23% | 26% | 11% | 16% | 74% | 40% | 33% | 27% | 82% | 8% | 10% |
| Clinical/hospital pharmacists | 0% | 43% | 57% | 57% | 29% | 14% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 29% | 29% | 43% | 57% | 14% | 29% |
| Community pharmacists | 15% | 27% | 58% | 71% | 17% | 13% | 12% | 12% | 77% | 38% | 29% | 33% | 13% | 17% | 71% |
| Family doctors | 8% | 21% | 71% | 26% | 33% | 41% | 68% | 15% | 17% | 15% | 15% | 70% | 48% | 31% | 21% |
| Family doctor trainees | 44% | 26% | 30% | 8% | 21% | 71% | 38% | 21% | 42% | 0% | 8% | 92% | 21% | 38% | 42% |
| Other speciality doctors | 29% | 24% | 47% | 67% | 15% | 18% | 18% | 18% | 65% | 36% | 42% | 22% | 96% | 2% | 2% |
| Nurses | 11% | 24% | 65% | 33% | 22% | 45% | 8% | 13% | 81% | 23% | 38% | 38% | 69% | 19% | 11% |
| Allied health professionals | 17% | 25% | 57% | 40% | 25% | 35% | 11% | 13% | 77% | 36% | 37% | 27% | 78% | 11% | 11% |
| Chi sq. test* | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||||||
*The Chi-square test compares each concern towards Covid-19 vaccine between the different healthcare professionals