Amanda C Gulsrud, Gerhard S Hellemann, Stephanny F N Freeman, Connie Kasari
Two to ten years: developmental trajectories of joint attention in children with ASD who received targeted social communication interventions
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research
covid19 pandemic caused 171657 confirmed cases 1462 deaths ghana particularly among frontline healthworkers involved pandemic response prevention measures ghana include astrazeneca covishield vaccination healthworkers research factors affecting uptake covid19 vaccines ghana initially limited therefore study aimed analyse knowledge attitudes initial uptake covishield among nurses war memorial hospital navrongo upper east region conducted crosssectional survey 128 district hospital nurses using simple random sampling first calculated descriptive statistics two composite variables summing either participant knowledge attitude variables threshold 50 considered sufficient positive respectively analysed associations demographic variables covishield knowledge attitudes uptake using binomial logistic regression 95 confidence interval pvalue 005 considered significant participants heard covishield vaccine attitudes toward generally positive 53 uptake high 72 reasons cited 28 unvaccinated included absence vaccination already infected covid19 lack trust vaccine safetyefficacy pregnancybreastfeeding education residence family type demographic factors significantly associated nurses knowledge attitudes towards uptake covid19 vaccination positive attitude significantly associated higher odds vaccinated aor 475 95ci 159141 sufficient knowledge aor 133 95ci 053332 first study ghanas resourceconstrained upper east region examine healthworker perceptions novel vaccine showed nurses knowledge attitudes uptake covid19 vaccination good overall research needed determine best address hesitancy understand findings attitudes appeared relevant knowledge uptake findings relevant local health authorities improving vaccine availability strengthening emergency risk communication management adverse events following immunisation