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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among staff and students in a Nigerian tertiary educational institution.
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- Willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines, associated factors and reasons for not taking a vaccine: a cross sectional study among persons aged 13-80 years in Wakiso, Central Uganda.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- A scoping review of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: refusal rate, associated factors, and strategies to reduce.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Factors associated with post-pandemic acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines among students in three Nigerian universities.PloS one · 2024Article
- Vaccine inequity: a threat to Africa's recovery from COVID-19.Tropical medicine and health · 2023Review
- Acceptance, availability, and feasibility of RTS, S/AS01 malaria vaccine: A review.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2023Review
- Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Nigerians: evidence from a cross-sectional national survey.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- Reducing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and improving vaccine uptake in Nigeria.Journal of public health in Africa · 2023Article
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- Mistrust in government and COVID-19 vaccination acceptance in Nigeria: investigating the indirect roles of attitudes towards vaccination.The Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association · 2023Article
- COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in sub-Saharan African countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Effect of Health Insurance Uptake on Hesitancy toward COVID-19 Vaccines in Nigeria: A Recursive Bivariate Probit and Decomposition Estimation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Influences of COVID-19 vaccination policy on students' vaccine acceptance.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundCOVID-19 was first reported on 31 December 2019 and has so far claimed over 2,000 lives in Nigeria. Through global and national efforts, about 4 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine was distributed and used in Nigeria from March 2021. Vaccine hesitancy could pose a serious problem for COVID-19 prevention and control.
objectivesTo estimate the proportion of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University community that is willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19; level of hesitancy and its associated factors.
methodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted using online Google form distributed to staff and students of the university via different WhatsApp groups. The outcome measures were the proportion of persons willing to be vaccinated, vaccine hesitancy rates and reasons for this hesitancy. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 23 and Minitab version 19. Bivariate analysis was performed by the chi-square test, Odds Ratios (ORs) and statistical significance was accepted when
resultsOnly 349 of the survey responses were analyzed in the survey. Results show that 34.70 ± 5.00% of the university community were willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when it is offered to them. The COVID-19 hesitancy rate among staff and students was 65.04 ± 5.00%. It was discovered that marital status (OR = 2.06), age (OR = 0.802) and christian denominational affiliation (OR = 0.366) influenced respondents' perception of COVID-19 vaccination. Gender, occupation, previous vaccination experience, awareness of COVID-19 and previous symptoms of COVID-19 did not significantly (
conclusionCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is high among staff and students in a Nigerian university and is significantly influenced by marital status, respondents' age and christian denominational affiliation.
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