TABLE 5.

Factors associated with willingness to take COVID-19 vaccines.

Characteristic	Categories	Willing to take COVID-19 vaccine
		Yes	%†	Adjusted OR	95% CI
Age	18–29	1287	81.6	1.00	-
	30–49	478	83.9	1.20	0.78–1.83
	50 and above	200	93.9	1.99	0.88–4.51
Gender‡	Male	677	81.8	1.00	-
	Female	1268	83.9	1.28	0.96–1.73
Highest level of education	Up to grade 12	584	80.0	1.00	-
	Diploma and undergraduate degree	625	82.2	1.27	0.91–1.79
	Postgraduate degree	755	87.2	1.06	0.71–1.60
University status (position)	Student	1573	81.4	1.53	0.56–4.18
	Professional staff	123	89.1	3.60*	1.10–11.75
	Academic staff	226	95.8	2.82	0.83–9.63
	Services	40	81.6	1.00	-
Perceiving COVID-19 vaccines are safe***	Agree	1103	97.3	31.56***	16.04–62.12
	Somewhat agree	728	86.6	9.38***	5.40–16.30
	Somewhat disagree	99	43.8	1.87*	1.07–3.26
	Disagree	34	21.7	1.00	-
Perceiving COVID-19 vaccine are effective***	Agree	1390	95.3	5.92***	2.87–12.19
	Somewhat agree	501	74.9	2.90**	1.48–5.65
	Somewhat disagree	51	42.1	1.83	0.88–3.80
	Disagree	21	19.6	1.00	-
Perceiving risk of getting COVID-19 is low	No	1858	83.7	1.00	-
	Yes	107	76.4	0.85	0.50–1.43
Being against vaccines in general	No	1932	85.2	1.00	-
	Yes	33	35.9	0.62	0.35–1.09

COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.

^*, p < 0.05;

^**, p < 0.01;

^***, p < 0.001.

^†, Row percentage of ‘Yes’ responses across each category;

^‡, excluded the other gender because of the small sample.