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Knowledge and Attitude Towards Second Dose Covid-19 Vaccine among Health Professionals Working at Public Health Facilities in a Low Income Country

Mohammedjud Hassen Ahmed*1, Shuayib Shemsu Siraj2,Jorn Klein3, Fedila Yassin Ali4 and Shuma Gosha Kanfe1

1Departmdent of Health Informatics, College of health sciences, Mettu University, Ethiopia
2Department of Public health, College of medicine and health sciences, Mettu University, Ethiopia
3University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
4Department of Public health, College of health sciences, Wolkite University, Ethiopia

Citation:
 Ahmed MH, Siraj SS, Klein J, Ali FY, Kanfe SG (2021) Knowledge and Attitude Towards Second Dose Covid-19 Vaccine among Health Professionals Working at Public Health Facilities in a Low Income Country. SciTech Central COVID-19.

Received: September 07, 2021         Accepted: September 09, 2021         Published: September 09, 2021

Abstract

Background: Several vaccines have being approved in a lot of countries to compact coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and distributed throughout the world in different countries. Health professional’s knowledge and attitude towards Second Dose COVID-19 vaccine were poorly implemented and understood in health facilities. The main purpose of conducting this study was to investigate health professionals’ knowledge and attitudes towards Second Dose COVID-19 vaccine at public hospitals in Ethiopia.
Methods: A cross-sectional study design was applied to assess knowledge and attitudes towards second dose COVID-19 vaccines among health professionals working at public health facilities in Ethiopia. Self-administered questionnaire were adopted for assessing knowledge and attitudes towards second dose COVID-19 vaccines. A multivariable logistic regression was performed to identify predictors correlate with knowledge and attitudes towards Second dose COVID-19 vaccine with p-value< 0.05 as a cutoff point for statistical significance at 95% confidence interval (CI).
Result: In this study, more than half of respondents had high knowledge towards second dose COVID-19 vaccines. Similarly, 95.6% of respondents had favorable attitudes towards second dose COVID-19 vaccines. Educational status [AOR=1.82, 95%CI (1.1, 2.2)], Age [AOR=2.01, 95%CI (1.76, 3.01)] and Profession [AOR=2.32, 95% CI (1.42, 3.01)]were variables associated with knowledge towards Second Dose COVID-19 vaccines. Educational status [AOR=5.42, 95%CI (4.1, 6.7)], age [AOR=2.4, 95%CI (1.54, 3.81)], Professionals [AOR=4.33, 95%CI (2.32, 6.87)], working experience [AOR=4.33, 95%CI (2.32, 6.87)], marital status[AOR=2.47, 95% CI (1.33, 5.95)], risk degree[AOR=2.33, 95% CI (1.31, 4.11)] and gender [AOR= 3.42, 95% CI(2.91, 4.98)] were determinant factors of attitudes towards second dose COVID-19 vaccines.
Conclusions:  Addressing problem related with risk degree, educational status and socio-demographic related problems will help to increase the overall knowledge and attitudes towards Second dose COVID-19 vaccines.
Keywords: COVID-19, Attitudes, Second dose vaccine, Knowledge, Ethiopia