Ayalew Sisay, Brook Lemma
Assessment on the prevalence and risk factors of gastrointestinal parasites on schoolchildren at Bochesa Elementary School, around Lake Zwai, Ethiopia
BMC research notes
vaccination important prevent morbidity mortality due covid19 among older syrian refugees aimed elucidate predictors covid19 vaccine uptake among syrian refugees aged 50 years older lebanon understand main reasons receiving vaccine crosssectional analysis fivewave longitudinal study conducted telephone interviews sept 22 2020 march 14 2022 lebanon analysis data extracted wave 3 jan 21april 23 2021 included question vaccine safety whether participants intended receive covid19 vaccine wave 5 jan 14march 14 2022 included questions actual vaccine uptake syrian refugees aged 50 years older invited participate list households received assistance norwegian refugee council humanitarian nongovernmental organisation outcome selfreported covid19 vaccination status multivariable logistic regression used identify predictors vaccination uptake validation completed internally bootstrapping methods 2906 participants completed wave 3 5 median age 58 iqr 5564 years 1538 529 male 1235 425 2906 participants received least one dose covid19 vaccine main reasons receiving first dose included afraid sideeffects 670 401 1671 wanting vaccine 637 381 1671 806 277 2906 participants received second dose vaccine 26 09 2906 received third dose main reason receiving second 288 671 429 third dose 573 735 780 waiting text message appointment predictors receiving least one dose covid19 vaccine included younger age odds ratio 097 95 ci 096098 male 139 119162 living inside informal tented settlements 144 124166 elementary 123 103148 preparatory education 115 095140 preexisting intention receive vaccine 129 110150 adjusting optimisation final model includes five predictors receiving least one dose covid19 vaccine showed moderate discrimination cstatistic 0605 95 ci 05840624 good calibration cslope 0912 95 ci 07581079 ongoing need address covid19 vaccine uptake among older syrian refugees improving deployment planning raising awareness importance vaccination elrhas research health humanitarian crisis programme