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Table 10 Adjusted odds ratios of vaccine hesitancy, community members only

From: COVID-19 vaccination in the Gaza Strip: a cross-sectional study of vaccine coverage, hesitancy, and associated risk factors among community members and healthcare workers

Characteristic

OR (95% CI)a

p value

Sex

 

0.004

 Female

–

 

 Male

0.58 (0.40 to 0.84)

 

Age

 

0.005

 18–39

–

 

 40+

0.47 (0.28 to 0.80)

 

Highest education level

 

< 0.001

 Primary or none

–

 

 Secondary or College/Vocational

0.45 (0.22 to 0.93)

 

 University

0.32 (0.25 to 0.42)

 

Have enough information about COVID-19 vaccine

 

0.11

 Yes

–

 

 No or don't know

1.39 (0.93 to 2.07)

 

Common source of information about health and vaccines

  

 Health care providers (ref: no)

1.01 (0.74 to 1.39)

0.93

 Family (ref: no)

1.29 (1.00 to 1.67)

0.051

 Social media (ref: no)

0.81 (0.60 to 1.10)

0.18

Trusted source of information: Health care providers

0.58 (0.49 to 0.68)

< 0.001

Think you can get seriously ill, hospitalized or die if you get COVID-19

 

0.005

 No

–

 

 Don't know

1.08 (0.76 to 1.53)

 

 Yes

0.62 (0.37 to 1.04)

 

Consider COVID-19 vaccines safe

 

< 0.001

 No or don't know

–

 

 Yes

0.03 (0.01 to 0.15)

 

 Somewhat

0.21 (0.18 to 0.25)

 
  1. Values in bold indicate statistically significant results at p value < 0.05
  2. aOR odds ratio, CI confidence interval