Assessment of Knowledge and Attitude of Primary Healthcare Workers toward COVID-19 Vaccine Compliance in Gusau Metropolis, Zamfara State, Nigeria

Abstract

The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected healthcare systems worldwide. COVID-19 has led to significant morbidity and mortality globally, including substantial cases and deaths in Nigeria. The roles of the healthcare worker in the uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine are enormous in education, information dissemination, building trust, motivation and support, accessibility and logistics, monitoring and follow-up, the importance of their knowledge and attitude is of paramount importance in helping the members of the community to make informed decision, demonstrate positive attitudes, serve as community role models and addressing misinformation. The study aimed to: Asses knowledge and to determine the attitudes of primary healthcare workers towards COVID-19 vaccination compliance in Gusau Metropolis. Descriptive cross-sectional design was employed. 128 primary healthcare workers were sampled. Multistage random sampling was used to select the population. Using a structured questionnaire conducted data collection, the responses were analysed using descriptive statistics for knowledge and attitude and inferential statistics of the Chi-square test to explore the relationship between knowledge and attitudes toward vaccine compliance. Findings showed that 65.6% of respondents possessed good knowledge about the COVID-19 vaccines. The attitudes towards the vaccines were positive, evidenced by an average attitude score of 3.0, indicating favourable vaccine compliance. There was a relationship between the knowledge of covid-19 vaccine and attitudes toward covid-19 vaccine compliance. The study concluded that primary healthcare workers in Gusau are well-informed about COVID-19 and possess positive attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination.