COVID-19 vaccination beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours among health and social care workers in the UK: Survey dataset

Bell, S

, Clarke, R, Mounier-Jack, S

, Paterson, P

, Ismail, S

and Ojo-Aromokudu, O

(2021). COVID-19 vaccination beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours among health and social care workers in the UK: Survey dataset. [Dataset]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. 10.17037/DATA.00002525.

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Data collected as part of an online cross-sectional survey to investigate COVID-19 vaccination beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours amongst health and social care workers (H&SCWs) in the UK by socio-demographic and employment variables. The survey included four main sections, comprised of questions relating to: (1) Demographics; (2) Employment; (3) COVID-19 vaccination beliefs and COVID-19 risk perceptions; and (4) Sources of COVID-19 vaccination information. In total, 1919 people were surveyed – 1658 healthcare workers (HCWs) and 261 social care workers (SCWs).

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Keywords

COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccination, Healthcare workers, Social care workers, United Kingdom

Item Type	Dataset
Description of data capture	The study used a mixed-methods approach – involving an online cross-sectional survey and semi-structured interviews – to gain insight into COVID-19 vaccination beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours amongst health and social care workers (H&SCWs) in the UK by socio-demographic and employment variables. 1917 people were surveyed – 1658 healthcare workers (HCWs) and 261 social care workers (SCWs). Twenty participants were interviewed. A multi-methods approach was used to quantify the prevalence of different views on COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and to explore reasons behind these views. The survey included demographic questions and closed and open-text questions. Recruitment to the study led to 2307 survey link click-throughs. Of these, 388 cases were removed due to the participants not responding to questions beyond the 50% survey progress mark. Two further cases were removed due to ineligibility (i.e. participants were not frontline H&SCWs currently working in the UK), leaving 1917 included participants. In order to run the logistic regressions with an appropriate number of participants in each of the subcategories of the categorical variables, the variables Ethnicity and Job role were recoded from 20 categories and 16 categories, respectively, into an Ethnicity variable with 7 categories and a Job role variable with 6 categories. In addition, we performed a factor analysis on the Vaccine belief and Trust in information source items to reduce the number of variables in the regression models. This reduced the 13 Vaccine belief items into two composite variables; Combined COVID-19 Vaccine belief (important, safe, and effective) (Cronbach’s Alpha = .918) and Social norms to vaccinate against COVID-19 (Cronbach’s Alpha = .661) and 4 single items. The 12 Trust in information source items were reduced to three composite variables Trust in health system sources (Cronbach’s Alpha = .876), Trust in non-health system sources (Cronbach’s Alpha = .738), and Trust in Friends and Family members (Cronbach’s Alpha = .876). Participants were not required to answer every question in the survey. Missing data were assessed to be low and missing at random. Multiple imputation was used to replace missing data in continuous variables for use in each logistic regression model and comparisons. Although participant permission was provided for interview and open-text data to be shared, there are concerns that the data content may result in participant harm. Therefore, we are sharing the quantitative survey data only.
Capture method	Interview: Telephone-delivery, Questionnaire: Fixed form - Web-based
Collection Period	From To 22 January 2021 8 February 2021
Date	8 October 2021
Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)	North Latitude East Longitude South Latitude West Longitude 58.883 1.30312 50.0937 -5.99181
Language(s) of written materials	English
Creator(s)	Bell, S , Clarke, R, Mounier-Jack, S , Paterson, P , Ismail, S and Ojo-Aromokudu, O
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (-2023) Faculty of Public Health and Policy > Dept of Global Health and Development
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Funders	Project Funder Grant Number Funder URI UNSPECIFIED National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) UNSPECIFIED http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000272 UNSPECIFIED Public Health England UNSPECIFIED http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002141 UNSPECIFIED NHS Race and Health Observatory UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Date Deposited	01 Oct 2021 15:55
Last Modified	11 Sep 2024 10:23
Publisher	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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