Pediatricians' COVID-19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines: A cross-sectional survey in Turkey

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Gönüllü, ErdemSoysal, Ahmet
Atıcı, Serkan
Engin, Mesut
Yeşilbaş, Osman
Kasap, Tuba
Fedakar, Atiye
Bilgiç, Emre
Tavil, Emine Betül
Tutak, Ercan
Yıldız, İsmail
Akçay, Teoman
Yılmaz Ağladıoğlu, Sebahat
Tunç, Turan
Can, İlkay
Karaböcüoğlu, Metin
Karabayır, Nalan
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Gönüllü, E., Soysal, A., Atıcı, S., Engin, M., Yeşilbaş, O., Kasap, T. ... Karabayır, N. (2021). Pediatricians' COVID-19 experiences and views on the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines: A cross-sectional survey in Turkey. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 17(8), 2389-2396. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1896319Abstract
Developing an effective and safe vaccine against Covid-19 will facilitate return to normal. Due to hesitation toward the vaccine, it is crucial to explore the acceptability of the COVID-19 vaccine to the public and healthcare workers. In this cross-sectional survey, we invited 2251 pediatricians and 506 (22%) of them responded survey and 424 (84%) gave either nasopharyngeal swap or antibody assay for COVID-19 and 71 (14%) of them got diagnosis of COVID-19. If the effective and safe COVID-19 vaccine was launched on market, 420 (83%) of pediatrician accepted to get vaccine shot, 422 (83%) of them recommended vaccination to their family members, 380 (75%) of them accepted to vaccine their children and 445 (85%) of them offered vaccination to their pediatric patients. Among the participated pediatricians 304 (60%) of them thought COVID-19 vaccine should be mandatory. We found that there are high COVID-19 vaccine willingness rates for pediatricians for themselves, their own children, family members and their pediatric patients. We also found that being a pediatric subspecialist, believing in achieving an effective vaccine, willingness to participate in the phase 1-2 clinical vaccine trial, willingness to get an influenza shot this season, believing a vaccine and vaccine passport should be mandatory were significant factors in accepting the vaccine. It is important to share all information about COVID-19 vaccines, especially effectiveness and safety, with the public in a clear communication and transparency. The opposite will contribute to vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine movement.
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