Attitude and level of COVID-19 vaccination and its determinants among patients with chronic disease visiting Debre Tabor Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278914
• Publication Date: 2022-12-09T18:31:37Z
• Authors: Nega Dagnew Baye; Assefa Agegnehu T...; Atalo Agimas Ayenew; Anmut Tilahun Mulu; Endeshaw Chekol A...; Zelalem Tilahun M...
• Keywords: Cross-sectional study

Coronavirus disease is a fatal viral caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. This study was aimed to assess the attitude, level of COVID-19 vaccine uptake, and its determinants among patients with chronic diseases visiting Debre Tabor Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia.An institutional-based cross-sectional conducted 422 randomly selected Hospital from February 1 March 30, 2022. Bivariable multivariable binary logistic regression analyses were done identify associations between dependent independent variables.Among all participants, only 29.6% vaccinated any vaccines at least one dose. Age 31 40 years (AOR = 6.26, 95% CI: 2.69-14.56), attended collage above 6.3, 1.37, 28.68), positive attitude towards 9.07, 4.51-18.22), good knowledge 7.63, 1.08-16.85), history 4.33, 1.85-10.17), family 3.99, CI 1.89-8.48), ever been tested for 0.33, 0.15-0.74) determinant factors uptake.COVID-19 uptake very low. The main reasons not being doubts about efficacy, may cause itself, fear adverse effects. Therefore, different stakeholders should enforce awareness creation.