COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among Health Care Workers in the United States
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Abstract
Background: Acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine will play a major role in combating the pandemic. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are among the first group to receive vaccination, so it is important to consider their attitudes about COVID-19 vaccination to better address barriers to widespread vaccination acceptance. Methods: We conducted a cross sectional study to assess the attitude of HCWs toward COVID-19 vaccination. Data were collected between 7 October and 9 November 2020. We received 4080 responses out of which 3479 were complete responses and were included in the final analysis. Results: 36% of respondents were willing to take the vaccine as soon as it became available while 56% were not sure or would wait to review more data. Only 8% of HCWs do not plan to get vaccine. Vaccine acceptance increased with increasing age, education, and income level. A smaller percentage of female (31%), Black (19%), Lantinx (30%), and rural (26%) HCWs were willing to take the vaccine as soon as it became available than the overall study population. Direct medical care providers had higher vaccine acceptance (49%). Safety (69%), effectiveness (69%), and speed of development/approval (74%) were noted as the most common concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccination in our survey.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.03.21249184: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: This study was approved by University of New Mexico Hospitals Institutional Review Board.
Consent: Informed consent was obtained prior to enrollment in the study.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources An online questionnaire was created using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at the University of New Mexico. REDCapsuggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)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…SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.03.21249184: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: This study was approved by University of New Mexico Hospitals Institutional Review Board.
Consent: Informed consent was obtained prior to enrollment in the study.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources An online questionnaire was created using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at the University of New Mexico. REDCapsuggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:We recognize limitations of our study. Due to sampling methods, our study population may not be representative of all US HCWs. Social desirability bias may also affect the interpretation of our study results, though the responses were anonymized to minimize this. Most importantly, our study was conducted when information regarding COVID-19 vaccines under development were limited and findings of the clinical trials had not been made public. As such, it is possible that with this information now being publicly available, both vaccine acceptance and attitude toward COVID-19 vaccines have changed.
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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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.03.21249184: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement This study was approved by University of New Mexico Hospitals (UNMH) Institutional review board. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable 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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
We recognize limitations of our study. Due to sampling methods, our study population may not be representative of all US HCWs. Social …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.03.21249184: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement This study was approved by University of New Mexico Hospitals (UNMH) Institutional review board. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable 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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
We recognize limitations of our study. Due to sampling methods, our study population may not be representative of all US HCWs. Social desirability bias may also affect the interpretation of our study results, though the responses were anonymized to minimize this. Most importantly, our study was conducted when information regarding COVID-19 vaccines under development were limited and findings of the clinical trials had not been made public. As such, it is possible that with this information now being publicly available, both vaccine acceptance and attitude toward COVID-19 vaccines have changed.
Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:
Identifier Status Title NCT04386252 Not yet recruiting Phase I-II Trial of Dendritic Cell Vaccine to Prevent COVID-... NCT043862523 Trial number did not resolve on clinicaltrials.gov. Is the number correct? NCT04505722 Recruiting A Study of Ad26.COV2.S for the Prevention of SARS-CoV-2-Medi... NCT045057224 Trial number did not resolve on clinicaltrials.gov. Is the number correct? NCT04405076 Active, not recruiting Dose-Confirmation Study to Evaluate the Safety, Reactogenici... NCT044050765 Trial number did not resolve on clinicaltrials.gov. Is the number correct? NCT04498247 Active, not recruiting A Study to Assess Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity o... NCT044982476 Trial number did not resolve on clinicaltrials.gov. Is the number correct? 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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