Abstract
Background: vaccination against COVID-19 alleviates the course of infection and its burden for health systems. However, despite unambiguous expert’s relation to vaccination it still remains controversial between medical professional in Ukraine.
Aim: to establish the attitude of medical professionals, including medical students and residents, to vaccination.
Material and methods: we anonymously interviewed 155 medical professionals using Google Forms. 97 respondents were medical students, 38 were residents, 20 were licensed medical doctors. 10 respondents also worked at medical university as teachers.
Results: 143 (92,2%) interviewees were vaccinated against COVID-19. 3 (2%) respondents were unvaccinated due to fear of side effects, others 9 (5,8%) had contraindications or COVID-19 recently. 125 (80,7%) considered vaccination beneficial for general population whereas 4 (9%) persons marked vaccination as unbeneficial, 16 (10,3%) refrained from answering. 120 (77,5%) interviewees considered vaccination beneficial for themselves whereas 24 (15,5%) marked it as personally disadvantageous and 11 (7%) refrained from answering. It is remarkably that no one declared fear of dismissal from job as a reason for vaccination as well as fundamental position against vaccination as a cause to restrict. As for сoncerns, answerers mentioned lack of COVID-19 vaccines investigations, including possible negative sequences for descendants.
Conclusion: the vast majority of respondents were vaccinated and supposed vaccination to be beneficial for themselves and for society. Nevertheless, there is still a need for additional education as some respondents announced unreasonable fears towards vaccination.
Footnotes
Cite this article as Eur Respir J 2022; 60: Suppl. 66, 2830.
This article was presented at the 2022 ERS International Congress, in session “-”.
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