Table 1.

Characteristics of the vaccine accepting, vaccine refusing, and vaccine hesitant dental teaching staff of the Faculty of Dentistry, Ain Shams University, Egypt (N = 171)

	Are you willing to take COVID-19 vaccine?			P value	Total frequency (percent)
	No (N = 80)	Not sure (N = 13)	Yes (N = 78)
1-Age
22–29	37(56.1%)	3 (4.5%)	26 (39.4%)	0.27	66 (37.6)
30–39	28 (42.4%)	5 (7.6%)	33 (50.0%)		66 (37.6)
40–49	13 (43.3%)	3 (10.0%)	14 (46.7%)		30 (17.5)
50–59	1 (16.7%)	2 (33.3%)	3 (50.0%)		6 (3.5)
Above 60	1 (33.3%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (66.7%)		3 (1.8)
2-Gender
Female	74 (51.0%)	12 (8.3%)	59 (40.7%)	0.01*	145 (84.8)
Male	6 (23.1%)	1 (3.8%)	19 (73.1%)		26 (15.2)
3-Are you a frontline health worker?
No	16 (39.0%)	6 (14.6%)	19 (46.3%)	0.13	41 (24)
Yes	64 (49.2%)	7 (5.4%)	59 (45.4%)		130 (76)
4-Current dentistry practice
Faculty of Dentistry	48 (52.7%)	9 (9.9%)	34 (37.4%)	0.06	91 (53.2)
Faculty of Dentistry and Private clinic	32 (40.0%)	4 (5.0%)	44 (55.0%)		80 (46.8)
5- Intention to travel internationally
No	73 (51)	12 (8.4)	58 (40.6)	0.01*	143 (83.6)
Yes	7 (25)	1 (3.6)	20 (71.4)		28 (16.4)
6- Existing chronic illness?
No	71 (47.3%)	10 (6.7%)	69 (46.0%)	0.46	150 (87.7)
Yes	9 (42.9%)	3 (14.3%)	9 (42.9%)		21 (12.3)
7- Individual contracted COVID-19
No	41 (47.7)	6 (7)	39 (45.3)	0.97	86 (50.3)
Yes	39 (45.9)	7 (8.2)	39 (45.9)		85(49.7)
8- Immediate social network contracted COVID-19
No	15 (31.9)	2 (4.3)	30 (63.8)	0.01*	47 (27.5)
Yes	65 (52.4)	11 (8.9)	48 (38.7)		124 (72.5)
9-Rate your degree of adherence to quarantine
Extremely	13 (39.4%)	4 (12.1%)	16 (48.5%)	0.36	33 (19.3)
Somewhat	62 (50.8%)	8 (6.6%)	52 (42.6%)		122 (71.3)
Not at all	5 (31.3%)	1 (6.3%)	10 (62.5%)		16 (9.4)
10-Rate your degree of anxiety about COVID-19
Extremely	24 (55.8%)	4 (9.3%)	15 (34.9%)	< 0.01*	43 (25.1)
Somewhat	56 (47.9%)	7 (6.0%)	54 (46.2%)		117 (68.4)
Not at all	0 (0.0%)	2 (18.2%)	9 (81.8%)		11(6.4)

*Statistically significant differences. All data was analyzed using Fisher’s exact test