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Abstract
Since March 2020, the world has faced a severe threat called COVID-19. According to the WHO, the COVID-19 pandemic is currently the most critical health crisis in the world and the most significant challenge and threat facing the world and humanity. This disease is a public health problem that has claimed the lives of many men, women, and children worldwide (Mohammad et al., 2022).
Significant of the study
Healthcare providers are a major and reliable source of information for vaccines that’s why HCWs can act as role models for the general population for getting a vaccination against COVID-19. Health care professionals have a pivotal role in maintaining public trust in vaccination (Shekhar et al., 2021). That’s why the current study aimed to assess the acceptability, awareness, and attitudes about COVID-19 vaccination and COVID-19-appropriate behavior adapted by health care providers.
COVID-19 considered a pandemic in Egypt as part of an ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. The Ministry of Health and Population Egypt confirmed that the first case of COVID-19 in Egypt was on February 14, 2020. As of the evening of June 15, there were 46289 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1672 deaths in Egypt (Mohamed et al., 2022).
Awareness is defined as the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events, and seems to be one of the crucial elements in changing behavior. More broadly, awareness is the state of being conscious of something. Another definition describes it as a state wherein a subject is aware of some information when that information is directly available to bring to bear in the direction of a wide range of behavioral processes (Shin et al., 2022).
Aim of the study
This study aims to assess the awareness of health care provider towards COVID 19 vaccine at Suez Canal university hospital through:
1. Assessing knowledge of health Care Providers about COVID 19 Vaccine.
2. Assessing attitude of health care providers toward COVID 19 Vaccine.
3. Assessing reported practices of health care providers toward COVID 19 Vaccine.
Research Questions
1. Is there a relation between knowledge and attitude of health care providers towards COVID 19 Vaccine?
2. Is there a relation between attitude and reported practice of health care providers towards COVID 19 Vaccine?
3. Is there a correlation between knowledge, attitude and reported practice of health care providers towards COVID 19 Vaccine?
Subject and methods
Research design:
A descriptive analytical design was used to conduct this study.
Research setting:
This study was conducted in Suez Canal University Hospitals at Ismailia Governorate; the university hospitals serve a large segment of the Ismailia, Canal Cities, Sinai and neighboring governorates.
Sampling:
- Type: A convenient sample was used in this study.
- Size: the sample composed of (341) included all available health care providers (nurses and physicians) dealing with COVID19 patients and participated in the study.
Tools of data collection:
Two tools were used for data collection
Tool I:
Self-administered questionnaire through Google forms were distributed by the researcher through social media and WhatsApp groups based on the recent related literature review and experts opinions and it was written in Arabic language which include four parts:
Part I:
Demographic data for nurses and physicians as (age, gender, level of education, marital status, monthly income, current place of residence and job).
Part II:
History of nurses and physicians regarding COVID 19 vaccine such as, (previous contact with COVID-19 patients, previous infection with COVID-19, receiving or registering with the Ministry of Health website to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, having family member who has been infected with COVID-19.
Part III:
Knowledge of nurses and physicians regarding COVID 19 such as (definition of disease, cause of COVID-19, ways of disease transmission, symptoms, complication, preventive measures and treatment
Part IV:
Reported practices of health care providers toward COVID 19 vaccine such as (precautions before obtaining COVID 19 vaccine, selection proper type of vaccine, side effects experienced after obtaining vaccine, procedures during dealing with COVID-19 patient).
Tool II:
Likert scale was used for assessing attitude of health care providers toward COVID 19 vaccine, Such as (Obtaining the vaccine can protect people suffering from poor immune systems, possibility that the COVID-19 vaccines can be available to everyone for free, Obtaining the COVID vaccine will be safe and reliable, Obtaining the COVID vaccine may reduce the health problems related to the virus).
Result:
47.5% of them their age ranged from 25 to 34 years and the mean of age was (30.05±8.5). (85%) of them female, 40.5% of them had bachelor’s degree. In relation to job career, it was found that 55.4% of HCPs were nursing staff.
94% of HCPs had satisfactory knowledge while 6% of them had unsatisfactory knowledge.
54% of HCPs had healthy practice while 46% of them had unhealthy practice.
98% of HCPs had positive attitude while 2% of them had negative attitude.
There was a highly statistically significance relation between total level of practice and total level of knowledge of HCPs regarding COVID 19 vaccine
There was a statistically insignificance relation between total level of attitude and total level of knowledge of HCPs regarding COVID 19 vaccine
There was a statistically insignificance relation between total level of practice and total level of attitude of HCPs regarding COVID 19 vaccine
There was a highly statistically positive significance correlation between total level of practice and total level of knowledge of HCPs regarding COVID 19 vaccine. Moreover, it shows that there was a statistically positive significance correlation between total level of attitude and total level of knowledge of HCPs regarding COVID 19 vaccine.
Recommendations:
Based on the current study finding the following recommendations were proposed:
Raising awareness about COVID-19 vaccination as a disease-control method, reducing hesitation toward vaccination.
Continuous professional development programs for all HCWs in hospitals targeting heightened awareness.
The Ministry of Health, hospital management, and nursing administration should support nurses with a comprehensive training curriculum comprising of a more structured approach to provide sufficient professional awareness of COVID-19.
Nurses should follow evidence-based practices and guidelines regarding COVID-19 toward vaccination, control, prevention and these guidelines should be integrated into the patient’s care.
Health care providers should design interventions in terms of awareness campaigns via all types of multimedia to spread more transparent information about the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.
Further research
This study results should be repeated with a larger probability sample size in a different geographic location to confirm the findings.
Recommend studies in urban and rural communities to investigate the religious conspiracy about COVID-19 vaccines that may ensure increasing the vaccination rate of COVID-19.