Authors

Fernanda Gil Almagro1, Francisco Javier Carmona Monge2, Fernando José García Hedrera3, Cecilia Peñacoba Puente4, Patricia Catalá Mesón4, Lilian Velasco Furlong4

Position

¹Máster. Unidad de Cuidados Críticos. Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón. Madrid (España) ²Doctor. Servicio de Anestesiología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela. A Coruña (España) ³Doctor. Unidad de Cuidados Críticos. Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón. Madrid (España)⁴Doctora. Departamento de Psicología. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Alcorcón, Madrid (España)

Contact address

Fernanda Gil Almagro. Unidad de Cuidados Críticos. Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón. C/ Budapest, 1. 28922 Alcorcón, Madrid (España)

Contact email: fgilalmagro@gmail.com

Abstract

Objective: to understand the disposition among healthcare staff to be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 and their reasons for it.

Method: a cross-sectional study through online survey conducted between December 2020 and February 2021. The study included professionals from the Spanish Health System belonging to any category who had managed COVID-19 patients from March 2020, both in the hospital and the community settings, including Primary Care. Non-probabilistic sampling, and ad hoc questionnaire: sample characteristics, concern about contagion, and willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Descriptive analysis.

Results: the study included 834 healthcare professionals. There was a high disposition to be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 (92% of the participants would receive the vaccine). The main reasons were concern about getting infected and infecting their relatives, followed by the need to end up the current pandemics as soon as possible. The decision of receiving the vaccine or not was only statistically influenced by professional category and gender, with nurses and doctors as well as men presenting the highest rates claiming that they would receive the vaccine.

Conclusions: this study showed the positive disposition of the healthcare staff towards current vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. Moreover, almost all healthcare professionals involved showed high concern for the possibility to infect a relative with the disease, or the possibility of becoming infected. The fact that said professionals were working with patients positive for COVID-19 at that time had no impact on their decision to receive the vaccine.

Keywords:

Vaccines; coronavirus infections; vaccine against COVID-19

Versión en Español

Título:

Predisposición del personal sanitario a la vacunación frente a la COVID-19