Research Article
Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination among Health Care Workers in Ghana
Table 2
COVID-19 experience of health care workers.
| | n (%) | Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine | No n (%) | Yes n (%) | -value |
| Contact with COVID-19 patient | Yes | 92 (39.3) | 48 (52.2%) | 44 (47.8%) | 0.032 | No | 142 (60.7) | 94 (66.2%) | 48 (33.8%) |
| Member of household diagnosed with COVID-19 | Yes | 38 (16.2) | 16 (42.1%) | 22 (57.9%) | 0.010 | No | 196 (83.8) | 126 (64.3%) | 70 (35.7%) |
| Relatives have been diagnosed with COVID-19 | Yes | 45 (19.2) | 18 (40.0%) | 27 (60.0%) | 0.006 | No | 161 (68.8) | 107 (66.5%) | 54 (33.5%) | Do not know | 28 (12.0) | 17 (60.7%) | 11 (39.3%) |
| Friends have been diagnosed with COVID-19 | Yes | 104 (44.4) | 55 (52.9%) | 49 (47.1%) | 0.078 | No | 95 (40.6) | 65 (68.4%) | 30 (31.6%) | Do not know | 35 (15.0) | 22 (62.9%) | 13 (37.1%) |
| Have tested for COVID-19 | Yes | 113 (48.3) | 69 (61.1%) | 44 (38.9%) | 0.909 | No | 121 (51.7) | 73 (60.3%) | 48 (39.7%) |
| Results of COVID test | Positive | 22 (19.5) | 12 (54.5%) | 10 (45.5%) | 0.781 | Negative | 80 (70.8) | 50 (62.5%) | 30 (37.5%) | Do not know/did not receive the result | 11 (9.7) | 7 (63.6%) | 4 (36.4%) |
| Chance of getting COVID-19 | Small | 37 (15.8) | 26 (70.3%) | 11 (29.7%) | 0.348 | Moderate | 70 (29.9) | 39 (55.7%) | 31 (44.3%) | Great | 112 (47.9) | 66 (58.9%) | 46 (41.1%) | No risk at all | 15 (6.4) | 11 (73.3%) | 4 (26.7%) |
| Heard about the COVID-19 vaccine | Yes | 213 (91.0) | 130 (61.0%) | 83 (39.0%) | 0.728 | No | 21 (9.0) | 12 (57.1%) | 9 (42.9%) |
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