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Introduction: New York City is one of the areas most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Healthcare workers are among those at high risk of contracting the virus, and a vital source of information and trust in vaccines to the community. Methods: This study was conducted about attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare workers at a public hospital in New York City during the beginning of COVID-19 vaccination. 428 hospital employees responded. Results: Several factors were significantly associated with vaccine attitudes, including demographics such as gender (p = 0.002), age (p = 0.005), race (p< 0.001) and home location (p< 0.001), role within the hospital (p< 0.001), knowledge about the virus (p< 0.001) and confidence in and expectations about personal protective equipment and behaviors (p< 0.001). Structural equation modeling revealed that the most predictive factors were prior vaccine attitudes and concern with the speed of testing and approval of the vaccines (p< 0.001). Multivariate analysis reinforced these, while also identifying perceived personal risk as significant (p = 0.033). Conclusions: Several modifiable factors that reflect confidence in science, scientific knowledge, personal risk perception, experience and medical authority are correlated with vaccine attitudes, indicating that a holistic educational approach to improve trust in science is likely to be effective in long-term reduction in vaccine hesitancy.
Federico Ciardi; Vidya Menon; Jamie Jensen; Masood Shariff; Anjana Pillai; Usha Venugopal; Moiz Kasubhai; Vihren Dimitrov; Balavenkatesh Kanna; Brian Poole. Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions of COVID-19 Vaccination among Healthcare Workers of an Inner-City Hospital in New York. Vaccines 2021, 9, 516 .
AMA StyleFederico Ciardi, Vidya Menon, Jamie Jensen, Masood Shariff, Anjana Pillai, Usha Venugopal, Moiz Kasubhai, Vihren Dimitrov, Balavenkatesh Kanna, Brian Poole. Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions of COVID-19 Vaccination among Healthcare Workers of an Inner-City Hospital in New York. Vaccines. 2021; 9 (5):516.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederico Ciardi; Vidya Menon; Jamie Jensen; Masood Shariff; Anjana Pillai; Usha Venugopal; Moiz Kasubhai; Vihren Dimitrov; Balavenkatesh Kanna; Brian Poole. 2021. "Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions of COVID-19 Vaccination among Healthcare Workers of an Inner-City Hospital in New York." Vaccines 9, no. 5: 516.