Vaccination against COVID-19 as prevention of occupational disease in University of Defence members in the Czech Republc - motivation for vaccination and reasons for hesitancy

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4149/BLL_2022_120" target="_blank" >10.4149/BLL_2022_120</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Vaccination against COVID-19 as prevention of occupational disease in University of Defence members in the Czech Republc - motivation for vaccination and reasons for hesitancy

Original language description

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in University of Defence members. BACKGROUND: Vaccination is the most important method of prevention against COVID-19 and achieving suffi cient vaccination rate is thus essential to maintain the military capability. METHODOLOGY: An online questionnaire was distributed electronically to 2,408 respondents in autumn 2021. The survey was designed to collect demographic predictors of vaccination, data on motivation and reasons for refusing vaccination. RESULTS: A total of 626 completed questionnaires were analyzed, of which 557 (89 %) were vaccinated and 69 (11 %) were unvaccinated respondents. The most signifi cant predictors of vaccine acceptance were: concern about COVID-19 (OR 2.44, p &lt; 0.001), history of COVID-19 (OR 0.39, p = 0.001). The most frequently cited motives for vaccination were health protection (74.7 %) and an easier social life (69.1 %), while concerns about vaccine safety and vaccine adverse effects (79.1 %) followed by lack of confi dence in vaccine effi cacy (68.7 %) were the main reasons for vaccine refusal. CONCLUSION: To increase the vaccination rate it is necessary to target the younger population and increase awareness of vaccine safety and effi cacy. If these measures are not suffi cient to encourage voluntary vaccine acceptance, consideration should be given to making vaccination mandatory for selected professional groups

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30305 - Occupational health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bratislava Medical Journal

ISSN

0006-9248

e-ISSN

1336-0345

Volume of the periodical

123

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

745-751

UT code for WoS article

000858637000010

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85138162399