Abstract Introduction: New York City is one of the areas most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Healthcare workers are among those at high risk of contracting the virus, and a vital source of information and trust in vaccines to the community. Methods: This study was conducted about attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare workers at a public hospital in New York City during the beginning of COVID-19 vaccination. 428 hospital employees responded. Results: Several factors were significantly associated with vaccine attitudes, including demographics such as gender ( p = 0.002), age ( p = 0.005), race ( p < 0.001) and home location ( p < 0.001), role within the hospital ( p < 0.001), knowledge about the virus ( p < 0.001) and confidence in and expectations about personal protective equipment and behaviors ( p < 0.001). Structural equation modeling revealed that the most predictive factors were prior vaccine attitudes and concern with the speed of testing and approval of the vaccines ( p < 0.001). Multivariate analysis reinforced these, while also identifying perceived personal risk as significant ( p = 0.033). Conclusions: Several modifiable factors that reflect confidence in science, scientific knowledge, personal risk perception, experience and medical authority are correlated with vaccine attitudes, indicating that a holistic educational approach to improve trust in science is likely to be effective in long-term reduction in vaccine hesitancy.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, Healthcare workers, Vaccine hesitancy, Vaccine attitudes, 【초록키워드】 Personal protective equipment, Vaccine, knowledge, COVID-19 pandemic, hospital, Gender, risk, virus, healthcare worker, New York City, COVID-19 vaccination, Community, age, information, Multivariate analysis, high risk, demographics, Predictive, Risk perception, Factor, approval, The United States, approach, effective, contracting the virus, IMPROVE, affected, significantly, conducted, correlated, the vaccine, reduction in, 【제목키워드】 Attitude, New York, Perception, worker,