Pediatricians’ COVID-19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines: a cross-sectional survey in Turkey
Developing an effective and safe vaccine against Covid-19 will facilitate return to normal. Due to hesitation toward the vaccine, it is crucial to explore the acceptability of the COVID-19 vaccine to the public and healthcare workers. In this cross-sectional survey, we invited 2251 pediatricians and...
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| author | Erdem Gönüllü Ahmet Soysal Serkan Atıcı Mesut Engin Osman Yeşilbaş Tuba Kasap Atiye Fedakar Emre Bilgiç Emine Betül Tavil Ercan Tutak İsmail Yıldız Teoman Akçay Sebahat Yılmaz Ağladıoğlu Turan Tunç İlkay Can Metin Karaböcüoğlu Nalan Karabayır |
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| description | Developing an effective and safe vaccine against Covid-19 will facilitate return to normal. Due to hesitation toward the vaccine, it is crucial to explore the acceptability of the COVID-19 vaccine to the public and healthcare workers. In this cross-sectional survey, we invited 2251 pediatricians and 506 (22%) of them responded survey and 424 (84%) gave either nasopharyngeal swap or antibody assay for COVID-19 and 71 (14%) of them got diagnosis of COVID-19. If the effective and safe COVID-19 vaccine was launched on market, 420 (83%) of pediatrician accepted to get vaccine shot, 422 (83%) of them recommended vaccination to their family members, 380 (75%) of them accepted to vaccine their children and 445 (85%) of them offered vaccination to their pediatric patients. Among the participated pediatricians 304 (60%) of them thought COVID-19 vaccine should be mandatory. We found that there are high COVID-19 vaccine willingness rates for pediatricians for themselves, their own children, family members and their pediatric patients. We also found that being a pediatric subspecialist, believing in achieving an effective vaccine, willingness to participate in the phase 1–2 clinical vaccine trial, willingness to get an influenza shot this season, believing a vaccine and vaccine passport should be mandatory were significant factors in accepting the vaccine. It is important to share all information about COVID-19 vaccines, especially effectiveness and safety, with the public in a clear communication and transparency. The opposite will contribute to vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine movement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f88661adc6ee43e4a9d0d71d31f231112023-09-25T11:17:06ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics2164-55152164-554X2021-08-011782389239610.1080/21645515.2021.18963191896319Pediatricians’ COVID-19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines: a cross-sectional survey in TurkeyErdem Gönüllü0Ahmet Soysal1Serkan Atıcı2Mesut Engin3Osman Yeşilbaş4Tuba Kasap5Atiye Fedakar6Emre Bilgiç7Emine Betül Tavil8Ercan Tutak9İsmail Yıldız10Teoman Akçay11Sebahat Yılmaz Ağladıoğlu12Turan Tunç13İlkay Can14Metin Karaböcüoğlu15Nalan Karabayır16Üsküdar University Medical SchoolMemorial Ataşehir HospitalOkan University HospitalDüzce University Faculty of MedicineKaradeniz Technical UniversityTokat Gaziosmanpaşa University School of MedicineAfiyet HospitalBingöl State HospitalMemorial Ataşehir HospitalMemorial Şişli HospitalNamık Kemal University School of MedicineMemorial Şişli HospitalMemorial Ataşehir HospitalMemorial Ataşehir HospitalBurhaniye State HospitalMemorial Ataşehir HospitalProf. Dr. Medipol University School of MedicineDeveloping an effective and safe vaccine against Covid-19 will facilitate return to normal. Due to hesitation toward the vaccine, it is crucial to explore the acceptability of the COVID-19 vaccine to the public and healthcare workers. In this cross-sectional survey, we invited 2251 pediatricians and 506 (22%) of them responded survey and 424 (84%) gave either nasopharyngeal swap or antibody assay for COVID-19 and 71 (14%) of them got diagnosis of COVID-19. If the effective and safe COVID-19 vaccine was launched on market, 420 (83%) of pediatrician accepted to get vaccine shot, 422 (83%) of them recommended vaccination to their family members, 380 (75%) of them accepted to vaccine their children and 445 (85%) of them offered vaccination to their pediatric patients. Among the participated pediatricians 304 (60%) of them thought COVID-19 vaccine should be mandatory. We found that there are high COVID-19 vaccine willingness rates for pediatricians for themselves, their own children, family members and their pediatric patients. We also found that being a pediatric subspecialist, believing in achieving an effective vaccine, willingness to participate in the phase 1–2 clinical vaccine trial, willingness to get an influenza shot this season, believing a vaccine and vaccine passport should be mandatory were significant factors in accepting the vaccine. It is important to share all information about COVID-19 vaccines, especially effectiveness and safety, with the public in a clear communication and transparency. The opposite will contribute to vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine movement.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1896319covid-19healthcare workerspediatriciansvaccine acceptancevaccine hesitancyturkey |
| spellingShingle | Erdem Gönüllü Ahmet Soysal Serkan Atıcı Mesut Engin Osman Yeşilbaş Tuba Kasap Atiye Fedakar Emre Bilgiç Emine Betül Tavil Ercan Tutak İsmail Yıldız Teoman Akçay Sebahat Yılmaz Ağladıoğlu Turan Tunç İlkay Can Metin Karaböcüoğlu Nalan Karabayır Pediatricians’ COVID-19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines: a cross-sectional survey in Turkey Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics covid-19 healthcare workers pediatricians vaccine acceptance vaccine hesitancy turkey |
| title | Pediatricians’ COVID-19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines: a cross-sectional survey in Turkey |
| title_full | Pediatricians’ COVID-19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines: a cross-sectional survey in Turkey |
| title_fullStr | Pediatricians’ COVID-19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines: a cross-sectional survey in Turkey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pediatricians’ COVID-19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines: a cross-sectional survey in Turkey |
| title_short | Pediatricians’ COVID-19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines: a cross-sectional survey in Turkey |
| title_sort | pediatricians covid 19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive covid 19 vaccines a cross sectional survey in turkey |
| topic | covid-19 healthcare workers pediatricians vaccine acceptance vaccine hesitancy turkey |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1896319 |
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