Healthcare workers’ attitudes toward children getting Covid-19 vaccinations in Gaza Strip

Background and objectives: Healthcare workers’ (HCWs) attitudes toward vaccine greatly influences individuals’ vaccine acceptance rate. Research in high-income countries identified five key person-level factors for vaccine hesitancy. Perception of vaccine were different in low-income or developing country, and the reason for vaccine hesitancy might not be the same as that in developed countries. This study assesses HCWs parents’ attitude toward their child getting COVID-19 vaccine and the potential influencing factors in HCWs living in Gaza Strip. Method: This is a secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional survey collected from 245 HCWs in Gaza between February and May in 2021. Multinominal logistic regression was used to model the association between vaccine hesitancy and potential influencing factors. Results: Only 27.2% HCWs parents in Gaza responded that they would like their children to get vaccinated. Higher perceived benefits of vaccine and having flu shot in last year were significantly related to higher vaccine intention (P-values <0.001). However, perceived susceptibility, perceived vaccine safety, and vaccine effectiveness were not significantly associated with vaccine hesitancy. Conclusion: Intervention in Gaza Strip should focus on educating people on vaccine benefits to foster the acceptance of the vaccine.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Healthcare workers’ attitudes toward children getting Covid-19 vaccinations in Gaza Strip ; volume:5 ; number:1 ; year:2024 ; extent:8 ; Open health ; 5, Heft 1 (2024) (gesamt 8)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Sha, Shuying ; Abusalem, Said Kamel ; Abuhammad, Sawsan ; Al-Jeesh, Yousef

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1515/ohe-2023-0027
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2405071612371.928101324549
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 10:53 MESZ