COVID-19 Vaccine Attitude and Its Predictors Among People Living With Chronic Health Conditions in Ibadan, Nigeria
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Abstract
Objective: To assess vaccination attitude and its associated factors among people with chronic health conditions.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, participants were 423 patients with chronic medical conditions. Data were collected on socio-demographic and COVID-19-related characteristics, via Open Data Kit software. A Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale was adopted. The main outcome was vaccine attitude status defined as positive if a VAX sum score was above the median value; otherwise, non-positive. Data were analysed using Chi-square and multivariate logistic regression analyses, at 5% level of significance.
Results: Overall proportion of patients with a positive attitude towards COVID-19 vaccination uptake was 46.6%. The most influential factor towards positive attitude was rating the government high in handling the pandemic. Other factors were education, income, COVID-19 knowledge and living room arrangement ( p < 0.05).
Conclusion: Less than half of people living with a chronic medical condition had a positive attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccine. The attitudes are strongly mediated by confidence in the government. The government could promote a positive vaccine attitude by improving the clarity of health instructions that shows government transparency and effective communication. These are critical tools for maintaining public trust and confidence.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2022.01.27.22269947: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Ethics Consent: Patient who selected a “yes” was enrolled into the study after written informed consent was obtained, while excluding patient who was very ill and cognitively impaired.
IRB: Ethical Approval: The University of Ibadan/University College Hospital Institutional Review Committee approved the survey protocol with approval number UI/EC/21/0065.Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization At every clinic visit, eligible consenting participants were selected using a simple random sampling (balloting approach). Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open …
SciScore for 10.1101/2022.01.27.22269947: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics Consent: Patient who selected a “yes” was enrolled into the study after written informed consent was obtained, while excluding patient who was very ill and cognitively impaired.
IRB: Ethical Approval: The University of Ibadan/University College Hospital Institutional Review Committee approved the survey protocol with approval number UI/EC/21/0065.Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization At every clinic visit, eligible consenting participants were selected using a simple random sampling (balloting approach). Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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