Table 4.
Participants’ attitude about the third COVID-19 vaccine booster dose
| Attitude items | Strongly disagree | disagree | Neutral | agree | Strongly agree | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | % | F | % | F | % | F | % | F | % | |
| Third vaccine dose (COVID-19 vaccine booster) help increase your immunity against the virus | 2 | 0.3 | 19 | 3.1 | 75 | 12.2 | 165 | 26.9 | 353 | 57.5 |
| Is it very dangerous for health using third dose vaccine (COVID-19 vaccine booster)? (reverse scored) | 181 | 29.5 | 204 | 33.2 | 124 | 20.2 | 60 | 9.8 | 45 | 7.3 |
| Third vaccine dose (COVID-19 vaccine booster) increase allergic reactions. (reverse scored) | 118 | 19.2 | 195 | 31.8 | 162 | 26.4 | 66 | 10.7 | 73 | 11.9 |
| Third vaccine dose (COVID-19 vaccine booster) increase autoimmune diseases. (reverse scored) | 65 | 10.6 | 162 | 26.4 | 161 | 26.2 | 138 | 22.5 | 88 | 14.3 |
| The newly third vaccine dose (COVID-19 vaccine booster) is safe and effective | 2 | 0.3 | 17 | 2.8 | 77 | 12.5 | 198 | 32.2 | 320 | 52.1 |
| The third vaccine dose (COVID-19 vaccine booster) is essential for UAE | 9 | 1.5 | 30 | 4.9 | 111 | 18.1 | 189 | 30.8 | 275 | 44.8 |
| I will encourage my family, friends and relatives to get the third vaccine dose (COVID-19 vaccine booster) | 9 | 1.5 | 23 | 3.7 | 71 | 11.6 | 181 | 29.5 | 330 | 53.7 |
| I will take third vaccine dose (COVID-19 vaccine booster) without any hesitation, if it is available in my country | 6 | 1.0 | 34 | 5.5 | 52 | 8.5 | 111 | 18.1 | 411 | 66.9 |
| It is not possible to reduce the prevalence of COVID-19 without a third vaccine dose (COVID-19 vaccine booster) | 8 | 1.3 | 31 | 5.0 | 124 | 20.2 | 168 | 27.4 | 283 | 46.1 |
| I worry about serious unknown long-term effects of the third vaccine dose (COVID-19 vaccine booster) in the future | 31 | 5.0 | 103 | 16.8 | 198 | 32.2 | 152 | 24.8 | 130 | 21.2 |
| I believe that third vaccine dose (COVID-19 vaccine booster) make a lot of money for pharmaceutical companies (reverse scored) | 11 | 1.8 | 47 | 7.7 | 149 | 24.3 | 233 | 37.9 | 174 | 28.3 |
| I believe that first two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine gives the safest protection (reverse scored) | 29 | 4.7 | 97 | 15.8 | 172 | 28.0 | 199 | 32.4 | 117 | 19.1 |
F, frequency; %, percentage