Table 4.
Bi-variable and multi-variable analysis to identify factors associated with acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine among pregnant women in eastern Ethiopia, 2021 (N = 645).
| Characteristics | Categories | Willingness to accept COVID -19 vaccine |
COR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not willing | Willing | ||||
| Residency | Urban | 227 (35.2) | 137 (21.2) | 1 | 1 |
| Rural | 173 (26.8) | 108 (16.7) | 1.03(0.75,1.42) | 0.77(0.5,1.25) | |
| Occupation | Housewife | 77 (11.9) | 118 (18.3) | 0.77(0.41, 1.43) | 0.98(0.5,1.93) |
| Farmer | 72 (11.2) | 82 (12.7) | 1.01(0.57, 2.03) | 1.7(0.75, 3.99) | |
| Private employee | 78 (12.1) | 144 (22.3) | 0.63(0.34, 1.16) | 2.1(0.76, 5.65) | |
| Government employee | 34 (5.3) | 40 (6.2) | 1 | 1 | |
| Educational status | No formal education | 42 (6.5) | 65 (10.1) | 1.5(0.93, 2.36) | 2.3(0.87, 5.9) |
| Read and write | 28 (4.3) | 33 (5.1) | 1.95(1.11, 3.4) * | 2.9(1.16, 7.23) * | |
| 1-8 grade | 37 (5.7) | 49 (7.6) | 1.74(1.1, 2.86) * | 0.71(0.71, 3.85) | |
| 9-12 grade | 55 (8.5) | 62 (9.6) | 2.04(1.31, 3.18) * | 4.2(2.1, 8.5) * | |
| Collage and above | 83 (12.9) | 191 (29.6) | 1 | 1 | |
| COVID-19 vaccine information exposure | Yes | 334 (51.8) | 167 (25.9) | 1 | 1 |
| No | 66 (10.2) | 78 (12.1) | 2.36(1.6, 3.44) ** | 2.2(1.41, 3.57) * | |
| History of chronic diseases | Yes | 48 (7.4) | 17 (2.6) | 1.82(1.03,3.25) * | 2.52(1.34, 4.7) * |
| No | 352 (54.6) | 228 (35.3) | 1 | 1 | |
| History of COVID-19 diseases | Yes | 32 (5.0) | 9 (1.4) | 1 | 1 |
| No | 368 (57.1) | 236 (36.6) | 2.28(1.07, 4.8) * | 0.63(0.27, 1.5) | |
| Income | <5000 ETB | 164 (25.4) | 238 (36.8) | 1.4(0.67, 2.83) | 1.33(0.60,2.9) |
| 5000-9999 ETB | 69 (10.7) | 138 (21.4) | 1.01(0.47, 2.1) | 0.81(0.37, 1.8) | |
| ≥10000 ETB | 12 (1.9) | 24 (3.7) | 1 | 1 | |
Key: * statistically significant at p-value <0.05, ** statistically significant at p-value <0.01, ETB: Ethiopian birr.