Examining Vaccine Hesitancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Survey of the Knowledge and Attitudes among Adults to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines in Ghana.
Examining Vaccine Hesitancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Survey of the Knowledge and Attitudes among Adults to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines in Ghana.
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DOI：
10.3390/vaccines9080814
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发表时间：
2021-07-22
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影响因子：
7.8
通讯作者：
Amuasi JH
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作者：
Acheampong T;Akorsikumah EA;Osae-Kwapong J;Khalid M;Appiah A;Amuasi JH
新冠肺炎疫苗接种方案对疾病传播、发病率和死亡率的影响在很大程度上取决于民众接受疫苗的意愿。我们调查了加纳成年公民对疫苗接种犹豫不决的态度，并确定了参与或不参与政府为公民接种疫苗的努力的可能性。2021年2月23日至28日，对2345名加纳成年人进行了一项完全匿名的横断面在线调查。采用皮尔逊卡方检验探讨不同人群对新冠肺炎疫苗接种意向的差异。此外，使用多项Logistic回归分析与接种疫苗意愿相关的因素。使用迭代比例拟合技术对响应进行加权，以生成具有代表性的样本。如果普遍提供新冠肺炎疫苗，15岁以上的加纳人中约有一半(51%)可能会接种这种疫苗，其中大部分是城市成年人。近五分之一(21%)的受访者不太可能接种疫苗，另有28%的人犹豫不决。此外，我们发现一些社会人口学特征，如年龄、性别和主要信息来源，在疫苗接种迟疑方面存在差异。只有将预防性疫苗接种方案与加强和协调的公共教育运动结合起来，加纳才有可能达到众所周知的63%至70%的群体免疫阈值。这样的运动应侧重于促进接种疫苗的个人和人口一级的好处，并采取先发制人的努力，以消除有关疫苗的错误信息。
The impact of COVID-19 vaccination programmes on disease transmission, morbidity and mortality relies heavily on the population’s willingness to accept the vaccine. We explore Ghanaian adult citizens’ vaccine hesitancy attitudes and identify the likelihood of participation or non-participation in the government’s effort to get citizens vaccinated. A fully anonymised cross-sectional online survey of 2345 adult Ghanaians was conducted from 23 to 28 February 2021. Differences in intentions regarding COVID-19 vaccination were explored using Pearson Chi-square tests. Additionally, multinomial logistic regression was used to analyse the factors associated with willingness to receive vaccines. Responses were weighted using the iterative proportional fitting technique to generate a representative sample. About half (51%) of mostly urban adult Ghanaians over 15 years are likely to take the COVID-19 vaccine if made generally available. Almost a fifth (21%) of the respondents were unlikely to take the vaccine, while another 28% were undecided. Additionally, we find differences in vaccine hesitancy among some socio-demographic characteristics such as age, gender, and primary sources of information. Attaining the proverbial 63% to 70% herd immunity threshold in Ghana is only possible if the preventive vaccination programmes are combined with an enhanced and coordinated public education campaign. Such a campaign should focus on promoting the individual and population-level benefits of vaccination and pre-emptive efforts towards addressing misinformation about vaccines.
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