Table 1.
Intention to potential vaccination and socio-demographic characteristics of health care workers (N=599)
| Characteristic | Total | Intention to potential vaccination |
P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Not sure | ||||
| Age (y) | 0.559 | |||||
| ≤30 | 324 (54.09) | 231 (71.31) | 36 (11.11) | 57 (17.60) | ||
| >30 | 275 (45.90) | 206 (74.95) | 29 (10.54) | 40 (14.51) | ||
| Mean±SD | 31.50±7.74 | |||||
| Gender | <0.001 | |||||
| Male | 293 (48.91) | 233 (79.52) | 30 (10.24) | 30 (10.24) | ||
| Female | 306 (51.09) | 204 (66.67) | 35 (11.44) | 67 (21.90) | ||
| Qualification | 0.348 | |||||
| Diploma in nursing | 43 (7.18) | 36 (83.72) | 3 (6.98) | 4 (9.30) | ||
| Bachelor degree | 306 (51.08) | 182 (59.48) | 31 (10.13) | 37 (12.09) | ||
| Master degree | 250 (41.74) | 219 (87.61) | 31 (12.41) | 56 (22.40) | ||
| Type of health care setting | 0.334 | |||||
| Government | 490 (81.80) | 363 (74.08) | 55 (11.22) | 72 (14.69) | ||
| Private | 52 (8.68) | 50 (96.15) | 7 (13.46) | 17 (32.69) | ||
| Semi-government | 57 (9.52) | 24 (42.11) | 3 (5.77) | 8 (14.04) | ||
| Occupation | 0.040* | |||||
| Physician | 75 (12.52) | 61 (81.33) | 7 (9.33) | 7 (9.33) | ||
| Resident | 55 (9.18) | 32 (58.18) | 8 (14.55) | 15 (27.27) | ||
| Nurse/midwife | 389 (64.94) | 291 (74.81) | 37 (9.51) | 61 (15.68) | ||
| Students† | 80 (13.36) | 53 (66.25) | 13 (16.25) | 14 (17.50) | ||
| Working experience (y) | 0.373 | |||||
| ≤6 | 339 (56.59) | 244 (71.98) | 34 (10.03) | 61 (17.99) | ||
| >6 | 176 (29.38) | 128 (72.72) | 23 (13.09) | 25 (14.20) | ||
| Mean±SD | 7.34±6.76 | |||||
| Median (IQR) | 6 (2–10) | |||||
| Living place | 0.265 | |||||
| City | 402 (67.11) | 301 (74.88) | 43 (10.70) | 58 (14.43) | ||
| Town | 134 (22.37) | 90 (67.16) | 18 (13.43) | 26 (19.40) | ||
| Village | 63 (10.52) | 46 (73.02) | 4 (6.35) | 13 (20.63) | ||
| Frontline workers | 0.008* | |||||
| Yes | 311 (51.92) | 243 (78.14) | 35 (11.25) | 59 (18.97) | ||
| No | 288 (48.08) | 194 (67.36) | 30 (10.42) | 38 (13.19) | ||
| Experience of caring/treating similar pandemic‡ | 0.428 | |||||
| Yes | 190 (31.72) | 145 (76.32) | 19 (10.00) | 26 (15.26) | ||
| No | 409 (68.28) | 292 (71.39) | 46 (11.25) | 71 (17.36) | ||
| Family members testes COVID-19 | 0.573 | |||||
| Yes | 127 (21.20) | 88 (66.29) | 16 (12.60) | 23 (18.11) | ||
| No | 472 (78.80) | 349 (73.94) | 49 (10.38) | 74 (15.68) | ||
| Vaccine producing country preferences | <0.001 | |||||
| India made | 469 (78.30) | 374 (79.74) | 39 (8.31) | 56 (11.94) | ||
| Outside India | 130 (21.70) | 63 (48.61) | 26 (20.00) | 41 (31.54) | ||
| Hospital working area | 0.235 | |||||
| COVID-19 area | 167 (27.88) | 130 (77.84) | 14 (8.38) | 23 (13.77) | ||
| Non-COVID area | 432 (72.12) | 307 (71.06) | 51 (11.81) | 74 (17.13) | ||
| Perceived risk of corona attack in next 6 months | 0.005* | |||||
| I think I had COVID-19 | 166 (27.71) | 109 (65.66) | 26 (15.66) | 31 (18.67) | ||
| Will not get the infection | 243 (40.57) | 176 (72.43) | 20 (8.23) | 47 (19.34) | ||
| Only light infection | 173 (28.89) | 139 (80.35) | 15 (6.17) | 19 (10.98) | ||
| Deadly infection attack | 17 (2.84) | 13 (76.47) | 4 (23.53) | 0 | ||
| I am willing to accept the COVID-19 vaccine | 599 (100.00) | 437 (72.95) | 65 (10.85) | 97 (16.2) | ||
Values are presented as number (%), mean±SD, or median (IQR), unless otherwise stated.
SD, standard deviation; IQR, interquartile range; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.
*
P<0.05.
†
Nursing & medical students.
‡
Severe acute respiratory syndrome, Middle East respiratory syndrome, or swine-flu or Nipah virus.