Willingness of Healthcare Workers to Recommend or Receive a Third COVID-19 Vaccine Dose: A Cross-Sectional Study from Jordan.
Mohammad Abu LubadMunir A Abu-HelalahIsraa F AlahmadMalak M Al-TamimiMohammad S QawaQzehAhlam M Al-KharabshehHamed AlzoubiAhmad H AlnawaflehKhalid Ahmed KheirallahPublished in: Infectious disease reports (2023)
< 0.05). Physicians reported more willingness than nurses and pharmacists. HCWs' willingness was not significantly affected by direct contact with a patient infected with COVID-19 or by a personal history of COVID-19 infection. Only 31% of HCWs were certainly willing to recommend the vaccine to their patients with chronic diseases, and only 28% of the participants were certainly willing to recommend it to people aged 65 or older. HCWs' willingness to receive a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine is limited in Jordan. This has affected their certainty in recommending this vaccine to their patients or people older than 60. Decision-makers and health-promotion programs in Jordan should focus on addressing this public health problem.
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- middle aged
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- patient reported outcomes
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