COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Cross-Sectional Survey.

COVID-19 determinants and infectious diseases vaccine acceptance

Journal

Vaccines
ISSN: 2076-393X
Titre abrégé: Vaccines (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101629355

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
14 Feb 2021
Historique:
received: 15 01 2021
revised: 06 02 2021
accepted: 08 02 2021
entrez: 6 3 2021
pubmed: 7 3 2021
medline: 7 3 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

We investigated the level of willingness for COVID-19 vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Data were collected between 24 August 2020 and 8 September 2020 through an online survey. A total of 4131 responses were included; mean age of respondents was 35 years (standard deviation: 11.5); 68.4% were females; 71% had elementary or secondary school education. One fourth (24.1%) were convinced that COVID-19 did not exist. Overall, 2310 (55.9%) indicated they were willing to be vaccinated. In a multivariable regression model, belonging to the middle and high-income category (OR = 1.85, CI: 1.46-2.35 and OR = 2.91, CI: 2.15-3.93, respectively), being tested for COVID-19 (OR = 4.71, CI: 3.62-6.12;

Identifiants

pubmed: 33672938
pii: vaccines9020153
doi: 10.3390/vaccines9020153
pmc: PMC7917589
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Subventions

Organisme : FIC NIH HHS
ID : R25 TW011217
Pays : United States

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Auteurs

John D Ditekemena (JD)

Kinshasa School of Public Health, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa 7948, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Dalau M Nkamba (DM)

Kinshasa School of Public Health, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa 7948, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Pôle d'Épidémiologie et Biostatistique, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 1348 Brussels, Belgium.

Armand Mutwadi (A)

Kinshasa School of Public Health, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa 7948, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Hypolite M Mavoko (HM)

Department of Tropical Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa 7948, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo (JN)

Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.

Christophe Luhata (C)

Kinshasa School of Public Health, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa 7948, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Michael Obimpeh (M)

Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.

Stijn Van Hees (S)

Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.

Jean B Nachega (JB)

Department of Epidemiology Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Center for Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Departments of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Department of Medicine and Center for Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Cape Town 7505, South Africa.

Robert Colebunders (R)

Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.

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