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. 2022 Nov 30;18(5):2063629.
doi: 10.1080/21645515.2022.2063629. Epub 2022 May 6.

Willingness to pay for booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine among healthcare workers in Taizhou,China

Shuang-Jun Pan  1 , Yu-Pei Yang  2 , Mei-Xian Zhang  3 , Tao-Hsin Tung  3
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Willingness to pay for booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine among healthcare workers in Taizhou,China

Shuang-Jun Pan et al. Hum Vaccin Immunother. .

Abstract

Purpose: We explored the willingness to pay for booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine among health-care workers in Taizhou, China.

Methods: A population-based self-administered online questionnaire evaluating the willingness of health-care workers to pay for booster vaccination of COVID-19 vaccine was conducted in Taizhou, China. Of the 1102 health-care workers received the invitation, 1072 (97.3%) had received twice vaccination of COVID-19 vaccine.

Results: There were 1569 (53.1%) out of 1072 health-care workers not willing to pay for thebooster dose of COVID-19 vaccines, 348 (32.5%) were willing to pay less than 100CHY for the booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines, only 155 (14.5%) were willing to pay more than 100 CHY. The factors related to willingness to pay for booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines were education level (c2 = 9.42, P = .01) or whether they had adverse effect to COVID-19 vaccines (c2 = 11.87, P < .01) .

Conclusion: This study found that about half of health-care workers were willing to pay for booster dose of inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in Taizhou, China, most of them are willing to pay less than 100 CHY. Health-care workers' willingness to pay for booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines were related to sex, education level, whether they had adverse effect to COVID-19 vaccines.

Keywords: COVID-19 vaccine; Healthcare workers; booster vaccination; willingness-to-pay.

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The proportion of willingness to pay for booster dose of inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccines among health-care workers.
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