Knowledge‚ Attitude and Acceptance of Pregnant Women toward COVID 19 Vaccine

Document Type : Original Article

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1 woman's health and midwifery nursing

2 Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt

10.21608/mnj.2025.322351.1443

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Background: Pregnant women are vulnerable to COVID-19 infection and this affect negatively on their health and their babies so, the COVID 19 vaccines are recommended in many countries. Aim: This study aims to assess knowledge, attitude and acceptance of pregnant women toward COVID 19 vaccine. Study design: Descriptive cross sectional study design was used. Setting: The study was carried out at antenatal outpatient clinic in the new Obstetrics and Gynecology hospital at Mansoura University Sample type: A purposive sample was utilized. Study subjects: The study subjects included 163 pregnant women. Tools: Structured interviewing questionnaire, studied pregnant women's attitude toward COVID 19 vaccine and studied pregnant women's acceptance toward COVID-19 vaccines. Results: The present study results showed that 80.4% of the studied pregnant women knew that COVID-19 is a viral infection, 81.1% of them knew that COVID-19 could be fatal, 46.6% of them knew types of COVID-19 vaccines, 57% of them agreed that COVID-19 vaccines were important for their protection against COVID-19 disease. On other hand 86.5% of them were worry about side effect of vaccine. 49.7% of studied pregnant women were hesitated to receive COVID-19 vaccine. Conclusion: More than half of the studied pregnant women had good knowledge and positive attitude toward COVID-19 vaccine and about half of them were hesitated to receive the vaccine. Recommendation: Simple designed brochures will be provided to pregnant women to increase their knowledge, improve their attitude and acceptance regard COVID-19 vaccines.
Keywords: Acceptance, Attitude, COVID-19 vaccines, knowledge, Pregnant Women

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