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Table 1 Characteristics of the vaccine accepting, vaccine refusing, and vaccine hesitant dental teaching staff of the Faculty of Dentistry, Ain Shams University, Egypt (N = 171)

From: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and perceptions among dental teaching staff of a governmental university in Egypt

 

Are you willing to take COVID-19 vaccine?

P value

Total frequency (percent)

No (N = 80)

Not sure (N = 13)

Yes (N = 78)

1-Age

 22–29

37(56.1%)

3 (4.5%)

26 (39.4%)

0.27

66 (37.6)

 30–39

28 (42.4%)

5 (7.6%)

33 (50.0%)

66 (37.6)

 40–49

13 (43.3%)

3 (10.0%)

14 (46.7%)

30 (17.5)

 50–59

1 (16.7%)

2 (33.3%)

3 (50.0%)

6 (3.5)

 Above 60

1 (33.3%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (66.7%)

3 (1.8)

2-Gender

 Female

74 (51.0%)

12 (8.3%)

59 (40.7%)

0.01*

145 (84.8)

 Male

6 (23.1%)

1 (3.8%)

19 (73.1%)

26 (15.2)

3-Are you a frontline health worker?

 No

16 (39.0%)

6 (14.6%)

19 (46.3%)

0.13

41 (24)

 Yes

64 (49.2%)

7 (5.4%)

59 (45.4%)

130 (76)

4-Current dentistry practice

 Faculty of Dentistry

48 (52.7%)

9 (9.9%)

34 (37.4%)

0.06

91 (53.2)

 Faculty of Dentistry and Private clinic

32 (40.0%)

4 (5.0%)

44 (55.0%)

80 (46.8)

5- Intention to travel internationally

 No

73 (51)

12 (8.4)

58 (40.6)

0.01*

143 (83.6)

 Yes

7 (25)

1 (3.6)

20 (71.4)

28 (16.4)

6- Existing chronic illness?

 No

71 (47.3%)

10 (6.7%)

69 (46.0%)

0.46

150 (87.7)

 Yes

9 (42.9%)

3 (14.3%)

9 (42.9%)

21 (12.3)

7- Individual contracted COVID-19

 No

41 (47.7)

6 (7)

39 (45.3)

0.97

86 (50.3)

 Yes

39 (45.9)

7 (8.2)

39 (45.9)

85(49.7)

8- Immediate social network contracted COVID-19

 No

15 (31.9)

2 (4.3)

30 (63.8)

0.01*

47 (27.5)

 Yes

65 (52.4)

11 (8.9)

48 (38.7)

124 (72.5)

9-Rate your degree of adherence to quarantine

 Extremely

13 (39.4%)

4 (12.1%)

16 (48.5%)

0.36

33 (19.3)

 Somewhat

62 (50.8%)

8 (6.6%)

52 (42.6%)

122 (71.3)

 Not at all

5 (31.3%)

1 (6.3%)

10 (62.5%)

16 (9.4)

10-Rate your degree of anxiety about COVID-19

 Extremely

24 (55.8%)

4 (9.3%)

15 (34.9%)

< 0.01*

43 (25.1)

 Somewhat

56 (47.9%)

7 (6.0%)

54 (46.2%)

117 (68.4)

 Not at all

0 (0.0%)

2 (18.2%)

9 (81.8%)

11(6.4)

  1. *Statistically significant differences. All data was analyzed using Fisher’s exact test