Table 4.
Determinants of COVID-19 VBH among 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) |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Professionals (n = 233) |
Students (n = 210) |
Sig. |
Yes (n = 307) |
No (n = 136) |
Sig. | |||
| Severe infection | Agreement | 178 (76.4%) | 159 (75.7%) | 0.495 | 270 (87.9%) | 67 (49.3%) | <0.001 | 337 (76.1%) |
| Disagreement | 39 (16.7%) | 29 (13.8%) | 19 (6.2%) | 49 (36%) | 68 (15.3%) | |||
| Symptomatic infection | Agreement | 144 (61.8%) | 134 (63.8%) | 0.324 | 226 (73.6%) | 52 (38.2%) | <0.001 | 278 (62.8%) |
| Disagreement | 52 (22.3%) | 38 (18.1%) | 30 (9.8%) | 60 (44.1%) | 90 (20.3%) | |||
| Community transmission | Agreement | 130 (55.8%) | 108 (51.4%) | 0.687 | 200 (65.1%) | 38 (27.9%) | <0.001 | 238 (53.7%) |
| Disagreement | 57 (24.5%) | 52 (24.8%) | 44 (14.3%) | 65 (47.8%) | 109 (24.6%) | |||
| Variants control | Agreement | 47 (20.2%) | 46 (21.9%) | 0.407 | 29 (9.4%) | 64 (47.1%) | <0.001 | 93 (21%) |
| Disagreement | 168 (72.1%) | 135 (64.3%) | 248 (80.8%) | 55 (40.4%) | 303 (68.4%) | |||
| Equal safety | Agreement | 172 (73.8%) | 162 (77.1%) | 0.280 | 265 (86.3%) | 69 (50.7%) | <0.001 | 334 (75.4%) |
| Disagreement | 36 (15.5%) | 25 (11.9%) | 19 (6.2%) | 42 (30.9%) | 61 (13.8%) | |||
| Daily routine | Agreement | 36 (15.5%) | 36 (17.1%) | 0.777 | 37 (12.1%) | 35 (25.7%) | <0.001 | 72 (16.3%) |
| Disagreement | 153 (65.7%) | 142 (67.6%) | 236 (76.9%) | 59 (43.4%) | 295 (66.6%) | |||
| Risk/benefit ratio | Agreement | 164 (70.4%) | 150 (71.4%) | 0.950 | 259 (84.4%) | 55 (40.4%) | <0.001 | 314 (70.9%) |
| Disagreement | 40 (17.2%) | 36 (17.1%) | 25 (8.1%) | 51 (37.5%) | 76 (17.2%) | |||
| Self-prioritization | Agreement | 175 (75.4%) | 150 (71.4%) | 0.456 | 270 (88.2%) | 55 (40.4%) | <0.001 | 325 (73.5%) |
| Disagreement | 46 (19.8%) | 47 (22.4%) | 24 (7.8%) | 69 (50.7%) | 93 (21%) | |||
| Global vaccine justice | Agreement | 73 (31.3%) | 68 (32.4%) | 0.591 | 115 (37.5%) | 26 (19.1%) | <0.001 | 141 (31.8%) |
| Disagreement | 67 (28.8%) | 71 (33.8%) | 64 (20.8%) | 74 (54.4%) | 138 (31.2%) | |||
| National vaccine justice | Agreement | 78 (33.5%) | 83 (39.5%) | 0.650 | 128 (41.7%) | 33 (24.3%) | <0.001 | 161 (36.3%) |
| Disagreement | 71 (30.5%) | 68 (32.4%) | 71 (23.1%) | 68 (50%) | 139 (31.4%) | |||
Mann-Whitney test (U) had been used with a significance level (Sig.) <0.05.
Bold values - statistically significant with p <0.05.