Kidney transplant recipients' attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination and barriers and enablers to vaccine acceptance.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify barriers and enablers to COVID-19 vaccination in renal transplant recipients who are undecided about vaccination.

Methods

An online survey was distributed to 876 adult kidney transplant recipients at a tertiary referral service, who had not been vaccinated against COVID-19. The survey assessed willingness to be vaccinated, attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines, and barriers and enablers to proceeding with vaccination.

Results

The survey response rate was 54% (473/876). Three hundred and forty-six (73.1%) participants planned to receive vaccination (yes group), 105 (22.2%) were undecided, and 22 (4.7%) refused vaccination. The undecided group were younger but were not different in other demographic characteristics to the yes group. The undecided grou

SUBMITTER: Tharmaraj D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8646313 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature