Acceptability of Covid-19 Vaccines and Determinant Factors among Health Care Givers in Government Health Institutions in Lideta Sub City of Addis Ababa; Central Ethiopia; 2022

Abstract

Purpose: Covid-19 vaccination is important in decreasing covid-19 related severity of the disease and hospitalization, however there is a gap among health care providers towards Covid-19 vaccine willingness; But, it could be controlled by vaccination. The acceptability of health workers on covid-19 vaccine was low in 2021/22 especially in Addis Ababa. Thus, the objective of this study was to assess the acceptability of Covid-19 Vaccines and its determinant factors among Health Care provider in Lideta sub city of Addis Ababa;

Methodology: This Institutional based cross sectional study design was used among 267 health workers in government health centers in Lideta sub city. The study populations were all health workers selected and included in this study from July to August 10/2022. Stratified random sampling was used to get the desired number of sample size. Self-administered semi structured questionnaires were used. Quality of data was maintained by designing appropriate data collection instruments, pretest, and careful data entry checks. Reliability of the attitude (perception) questionnaire was checked at Cronbach's alpha coefficients of 0.72.

Results: Acceptability of Covid-19 Vaccines among Health Care providers was 70.4%. Being female [(OR= 1.96, (95%CI: 1.02, 3.55)], Being clinically suspected, [(OR= 2.3, (95%CI: 1.05, 3.71)] and Being single in marital status [(OR=1.96, 95%CI; 1.29, 8.20)] were more likely predicted with acceptability of COVID-19 vaccine in health workers in this study.

Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Fear of side effects and feeling of poor efficacy for the vaccine, attitude (perception) were the major reasons for Health care provider to be unvaccinated for covid-19 vaccine.