PRACTICES ON COVID-19 VACCINE VACCINATION OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF CAN THO UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY

Trương Ngọc Bích Trần1, Thị Cẩm Hồng Đỗ1, Xuân Vinh Nguyễn1, Hồng Diễm Đỗ1, Thị Ngọc Nga Phạm1, Hữu Chường Nguyễn1, Thị Tuyết Nhung Phan1,
1 Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy

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Background: Healthcare workers are at particular threat due to occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2. Therefore, they're in the top precedence group for vaccination. Objectives: Survey on vaccination practices of officers and workers working at Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy from January 2022 to March 2022. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study on an aggregate of 422 officers and workers working at Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy. Results: The study recorded that over to 96,4% of subjects were willing to admit the COVID-19 vaccine for the first time, 98,8% were willing to admit the alternate COVID- 19 vaccine, and 96,9% were willing to admit the following COVID- 19 vaccine. the alternate time and 91,9% will report side goods to medical staff when passing side goods of the vaccine. The study didn't find a statistically significant association between reporting side goods of the COVID-19 vaccine and some characteristics of the study subjects. Conclusions: COVID- 19 vaccination practice of staff and workers at Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy is veritably good, counting for a rate of over 91%.

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