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Abstract
Introduction To evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, and acceptance toward covid-19 vaccine of gynecologic cancer patients in Thailand
Methods Participants from Chiang Mai University Hospital, Khon Kaen university hospital, Khon Kaen Hospital, Prince of Songkla university hospital, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) were surveyed on these issues using a WHO survey tool.
Results Between February and September 2022, 1,263 patients participated in this project and 1,084 (85.8%) received the COVID-19 vaccine. The highest rate of vaccination was from NCI followed by Khon Kaen, Chiang Mai, and Songkhla. 356 participants (28.2%) were infected with COVID-19 and 46 infected participants (12.9%) were unvaccinated. Regarding knowledge and attitudes, most participants felt quite easy to get health literacy, moderate probability to get the severity of covid-19 infection, proper behavior for prevention, little stress of COVID infection, quite a lot to trust in healthcare workers, quite agreed with lifting regular rules for control covid-19 pandemic, and often general well-being. The significantly different level (level 0–6: the least to the most) vaccination decision factors in unvaccinated versus vaccinated participants were as follows: health ministry recommendation (3.92 vs.4.16), how easy to get the vaccine (3.6 vs. 3.9), no need to vaccine due to rare disease (2.6 vs.2.2), stress made me not want to vaccinate (2.6 vs 2.1), if everyone is vaccinated, no need for me to vaccinate (2.5 vs 1.9), and the importance of covid-19 vaccines (3.7 vs.4.2)
Conclusion/Implications Most gynecologic cancer patients received covid-19 vaccine and revealed a good knowledge and attitude toward this pandemic