Hepatitis B Vaccination Status among Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Hospital in Ethiopia

Table 3

Reasons for not being vaccinated against HBV and for not taking full course of the vaccine, GUH, Ethiopia, 2016.

	Reasons	Frequency ()	Percentage (%)
Reason for not being vaccinated ()	Cost of the vaccine	27	18.5
	The vaccine is not easily available	85	58.2
	Afraid of vaccine side effect	3	2.1
	Vaccination is not necessary	2	1.4
	Lack of information	12	8.2
	Too busy	12	8.2
	Afraid of needles	1	0.7
	Others	4	2.7
Reason for not receiving full course of vaccination ()	Fear of adverse effect	10	17.2
	Assuming that it was enough	2	3.4
	Being busy	19	32.8
	Not available	8	13.8
	Carelessness	4	6.9
	Started and waited	15	25.9

HBV positive, carelessness, and not useful.