Table 3.
Attitudes toward COVID-19 VBD of polish healthcare professionals and students responding to COVID-19 VBH survey, December 2021–January 2022 (n = 443).
| Variable | Outcome | Employment | Triple vaccinated |
Total (n = 443) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Professionals (n = 233) |
Students (n = 210) |
Sig. |
Yes (n = 307) |
No (n = 136) |
Sig. | |||
| Attitudes | Rejection | 45 (19.3%) | 33 (15.7%) | 0.321 | 25 (8.1%) | 53 (39%) | <0.001 | 78 (17.6%) |
| Hesitancy | 18 (7.7%) | 17 (8.1%) | 0.885 | 12 (3.9%) | 23 (16.9%) | <0.001 | 35 (7.9%) | |
| Acceptance† | 170 (73%) | 160 (76.2%) | 0.436 | 270 (87.9%) | 60 (44.1%) | <0.001 | 330 (74.5%) | |
| Promoter† | Self-protection | 160 (94.1%) | 154 (96.3%) | 0.367 | 256 (94.8%) | 58 (96.7%) | 0.746 | 314 (95.2%) |
| Family's health | 138 (81.2%) | 132 (82.5%) | 0.755 | 220 (81.5%) | 50 (83.3%) | 0.737 | 270 (81.8%) | |
| Patient/colleague | 89 (52.4%) | 93 (58.1%) | 0.292 | 148 (54.8%) | 34 (56.7%) | 0.794 | 182 (55.2%) | |
| Community's health | 105 (61.8%) | 104 (65%) | 0.542 | 167 (61.9%) | 42 (70%) | 0.236 | 209 (63.3%) | |
| Testing avoidance | 19 (11.2%) | 32 (20%) | 0.027 | 42 (15.6%) | 9 (15%) | 0.914 | 51 (15.5%) | |
| Easier social life | 74 (43.5%) | 94 (58.8%) | 0.006 | 138 (51.1%) | 30 (50%) | 0.876 | 168 (50.9%) | |
| Work/study place | 4 (2.4%) | 8 (5%) | 0.199 | 9 (3.3%) | 3 (5%) | 0.463 | 12 (3.6%) | |
Chi-squared test (χ2) and Fisher's-exact test had been used with a significance level (Sig.) <0.05.
†
Refers to the vaccine-accepting group.
Bold values - statistically significant with p <0.05.