COVID-19 Vaccination among Czech Dentists

SCHMIDT, Jan, Vojtěch PEŘINA, Jana TREGLEROVÁ, Nela PILBAUEROVA, Jakub SUCHANEK and Roman SMUCLER. COVID-19 Vaccination among Czech Dentists. Vaccines. Basel: MDPI, 2022, vol. 10, No 3, p. 1-13. ISSN 2076-393X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10030428.

Basic information

• Original name: COVID-19 Vaccination among Czech Dentists
• Authors: SCHMIDT, Jan (203 Czech Republic), Vojtěch PEŘINA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jana TREGLEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Nela PILBAUEROVA (203 Czech Republic), Jakub SUCHANEK (203 Czech Republic) and Roman SMUCLER (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: Vaccines, Basel, MDPI, 2022, 2076-393X.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 30102 Immunology
• Country of publisher: Switzerland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 7.800
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14110/22:00125885
• Organization unit: Faculty of Medicine
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10030428
• UT WoS: 000774485000001
• Keywords in English: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; vaccination; dentistry; pandemic; dentist; occupational health
• Tags: 14110227, rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This work describes and evaluates vaccination against COVID-19 among members of the Czech Dental Chamber during the pre-booster vaccination phase. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted between 23 June and 4 September 2021, among 2716 participants, representing 24.3% of all chamber members. A total of 89.5% of respondents stated that they were registered for vaccination against COVID-19, their vaccination had started or been completed, or had a medically relevant reason to avoid vaccination. A total of 79.6% of respondents stated that they were fully vaccinated, most of them with the Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine (88.3%). The vaccination rate among males was significantly higher than among females (p = 0.001, OR 1.48). The main reasons for vaccination were professional (91.5%). The share of fully vaccinated participants was significantly higher (p < 0.0001, OR = 8.17) compared to the Czech general population (30.8%). A COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection rate was 0.42%. The study shows that both the willingness to vaccinate and the proportion of fully vaccinated individuals among Czech dentists are high, and only about 10% of them refused vaccination based on reasons classified as not medically relevant.