Acceptance and preference for COVID-19 vaccination in health-care workers (HCWs)

Chuanxi Fu; Zheng Wei; Sen Pei; Shunping Li; Xiaohui Sun; Ping Liu

The survey was carried out using a self-administered, anonymous questionnaire, which consisted of 5 sections: (i) Demographics information; (ii) seven items for knowledge of and attitude to SARS-CoV-2 infection including susceptible individuals, various health outcomes, sub-population who tend to die after being infected, effective treatment, virus mutation, epidemic trend (disappear in summer like SARS, seasonal epidemic like seasonal influenza, persistent chronic disease like tuberculosis), and possibility of getting infected; (iii) ten items for the acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination including the necessity, months to availability on the market, the most needed to be vaccinated, desire to receive the vaccination, the lowest effectiveness, the most serious adverse effects, the highest number of doses, and the highest expense that could be accepted, and the confidence in domestic manufactured vaccines; (iv) behaviours post epidemic including plans to receive seasonal influenza vaccine or pneumococcal vaccine and maintaining of other unspecified protective measures; (v) Preferences for vaccination decision. All the questions were based on evidence in existing literature. The SO JUMP, an online survey platform, was employed to conduct the online investigation (see Supplemental material 1 and 2).