دورية أكاديمية
What motivated residents of Saudi Arabia to receive the COVID-19 vaccine?
العنوان: | What motivated residents of Saudi Arabia to receive the COVID-19 vaccine? |
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المؤلفون: | Jenny Gray, Ahmed AlHumaidi AlAnazi, Fahad AlSumait, Amani Abu-Shaheen, Muhammad Salman Bashir, Mohammed Al Sheef |
المصدر: | Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 11 (2023) |
بيانات النشر: | Frontiers Media S.A., 2023. |
سنة النشر: | 2023 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Saudi Arabia, COVID-19, vaccine, SARS CoV-2, population, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
الوصف: | BackgroundAcceptance of vaccination is a multifactorial issue. The unprecedented speed at which the COVID-19 disease spread globally has meant that people have had to face the idea of receiving novel vaccines for a novel disease.PurposeStudies conducted earlier in the pandemic had shown high vaccine hesitancy in Saudi Arabia, therefore we wanted to understand the motivating factors for people living in Saudi Arabia with regards to accepting the COVID-19 vaccine, our survey was conducted when the government had already mandated vaccination to enter public spaces. Saudi society is not particularly outspoken and therefore it was of special importance to the authors to explore the motivation behind COVID-19 vaccines.MethodsThis is a cross-sectional survey of 802 participants living in Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire was distributed to staff, visitors, and patients in a hospital in Saudi Arabia and via electronic means to the general population.ResultsA total of 521 (65%) of the respondents were women, and 281 (35%) were men. A total of 710 (88.5%) were Saudi, and 55 (6.9%) were non-Saudi. The majority of participants (496, 65.7%) stated that they registered for the vaccine as soon as it was available, with 185 (24.5%) stating that they registered when they were mandated to do so and 74 (9.8%) registered only when they felt cases were increasing. Most participants (316, 41%) stated that the main reason for taking the vaccine was one of a self-protective nature, followed by indirect vaccination (240, 31.1%), paternalistic reasons (157, 20.4%) and altruistic reasons (58, 7.5%).ConclusionsWith the increased burden on healthcare that is being faced by COVID-19, other resources need to be carefully allocated. This paper may aid the Saudi government in understanding the motivation for the population to take the vaccine and therefore facilitate any future vaccination campaigns to ensure the best utilization of resources. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 2296-2565 |
Relation: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1065157/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-2565 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1065157 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/a59be47157564339aca25f549aa66ef1 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.59be47157564339aca25f549aa66ef1 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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