ReviewInfection and drug resistance2021
Attitude Towards COVID-19 Vaccination Among Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of measures of healthcare workers' vaccine confidence.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Pooled it
- The determinants of COVID-19 vaccination intention: a meta-review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
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- COVID-19 Vaccination Knowledge, Attitudes, Perception, and Practices Among Frontline Healthcare Workers in Tunisia, 2024.Vaccines · 2026Article
- Underreporting of Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Vaccination Among Healthcare Professionals in Poland: Potential Implications for Vaccine Hesitancy.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- The Willing-Unwilling: A Cross-Sectional Study to Explore Health Workers' Perceptions About the COVID-19 Vaccine.Cureus · 2025Article
- Perspectives Toward COVID-19 Sanctions in the Orthodox Jewish Community in Brooklyn and Queens: A Qualitative Study of Medical Providers Experience.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Factors associated with influenza vaccine adherence among health care workers in Abu Dhabi.Southern African journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- [Vaccination coverage against COVID-19 in healthcare workers and associated factors in the city of Yaoundé in July 2022].The Pan African medical journal · 2025Article
- Rural community pharmacists' willingness to receive, administer, and recommend COVID-19 vaccines after the First U.S. vaccine rollout.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2024Article
- Facilitators and barriers of long-term exercise adherence in healthcare workers formerly suffering from post-COVID-19 syndrome : A qualitative 1-year follow-up and quantitative pilot study of the COFIT trial.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2024Article
- The intention of Egyptian healthcare workers to take the monkeypox vaccine: is urgent action required?BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Association of the belief in conspiracy narratives with vaccination status and recommendation behaviours of German physicians.Vaccine: X · 2024Article
- Coronavirus disease-19 vaccine uptake, willingness for vaccination, and associated Factors among chronic follow patients attending in the two comprehensive specialized hospitals of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Assessment of Covid-19 vaccine confidence among healthcare personnel in the safety-net sector in the United States and Puerto Rico.BMC health services research · 2024Article
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- COVID-19 vaccination uptake among healthcare workers in Ghana: A comprehensive analysis of knowledge, attitude, perceived vaccine effectiveness, and health belief model constructs.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Assessment of COVID-19 vaccine take-up and its predictors among healthcare professionals in public hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Facility-based cross-sectional study.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Article
- The Association between Levels of Trust in the Healthcare System and Influenza Vaccine Hesitancy among College Students in Israel.Vaccines · 2023Article
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Healthcare Workers and Attitude Changes During the Pandemic.Infectious diseases & clinical microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionAvailability and accessibility of a safe COVID-19 vaccine do not necessarily guarantee an effective means to mitigate the pandemic. However, the fragile hero's or health care worker's attitude toward the vaccine is of paramount importance to promote its acceptance. So, the current review aims to provide the latest assessment of healthcare workers' attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccination and its contributing factor worldwide.
methodsPeer-reviewed surveys in English indexed via an electronic database in Google Scholar, Science Direct and PubMed were systematically searched. The review was carried out per the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA-2009) and registered on PROSPERO (CRD42021265534).
resultsOriginally 8039 articles were searched from three databases PubMed, Science direct, and Google scholar. Finally, 24 studies met the inclusion criteria and made the root for the estimates of the attitude of COVID -19 vaccinations. In about two-thirds of the studies, respondents showed a positive attitude (≥50%) toward COVID-19 vaccination. However, in about one-quarter of the studies, a negative attitude (<50%) against vaccination was reported. Factors related to the attitude of healthcare workers toward COVID-19 vaccination include age, sex, profession, concerns about the safety of vaccines and fear of COVID-19, trust in the accuracy of the measures taken by the government, flu vaccination during the previous season, comorbid chronic illness, history of recommendation, and depression symptoms in the past week.
conclusionAlthough most studies report that healthcare workers have a positive attitude toward COVID-19 vaccination, quite a few surveys mention negative attitudes towards the use of vaccines, which may reflect missed opportunities or challenges for the international efforts aimed at mitigating the pandemic. Still, we need to continue to make more efforts to change the attitudes of the uncertain healthcare workers to increase the uptake of the vaccine and deal with the multi-faceted impact of infection.
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