ASSESSMENT OF KONWLEDGE, ATTIUDE AND ACCEPTABILITY OF COVID-19 VACCINE AMONG HEALTH CARE WORKERS INWOLKITE TOWN HEALTH INSTITUTIONS ,WOLKITE,SOUTH WEST ETHIOPIA, 2022 CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY DESIGN

Abstract

Background: Corona virus or COVID-19 is the today’s world pandemic that has been caused by novel corona virus. Healthcare workers who have knowledge gap and negative attitude towards the vaccine haven’t accept the vaccines or are hesitant about vaccinations and share these unfavorable attitudes . ObjectiveTo assess knowledge, attitude, acceptability of a COVID-19 vaccine among healthcare workers in wolkite town health institutions ,wolkite south west, Ethiopia 2022.MethodInstitutional based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among health care workers of wolikte town health institutions. A total of 231 health professionals was selected by simple random sampling method from 490 health professionals. pretest will be carried out at non selected health institution before the formal use of the questionnaire. Data was checked for completeness manually exported and analyzed by SPSS version 20. Descriptive analysis wasdone for socio demographic characteristics for participants and knowledge, attitude, acceptance of COVID 19 vaccination among health care workers in wolkite town.Result: A total of 231 health care workers were participated in this study, 95.5% giving response rate. With 130(56.3%) male and 101(43.7 %%) were females. The level of good knowledge towards COVID 19 vaccination among health care workers were 75.3 %(n=174). The level of favorable attitude towards COVID 19 vaccination among health care workers were 59.3% (n=137). From the total study participants, those accepted COVID 19 vaccination without hesitate were 64.9 %( n=150).Conclusion and recommendation: based on our study most of health care workers had good knowledge, favorable attitude and acceptability towards COVID -19 vaccinations. Therefore, greater efforts need to be made through educational programs and panels to inform the necessity for proper vaccination and practices in controlling this disease