Table 2 Participants characteristics by vaccine acceptance

Age, median (IQR)

28.0 (27.0–29.0)

30.0 (29.0–33.0)

 < 0.01^a

Female, n (%)^†

18 (5.0%)

341 (95.0%)

0.47^b

Religion, n (%)^†

0.40^b

 Buddhism

28 (4.2%)

634 (95.8%)

 Christianity

2 (9.5%)

19 (90.5%)

 Islam

0 (0.0%)

3 (100.0%)

 Others

1 (5.3%)

18 (94.7%)

Presence of comorbidity, n (%)^†

4 (3.1%)

125 (96.9%)

0.63^b

Physician role, n (%)^†

 < 0.01^b

 Resident

28 (6.9%)

378 (93.1%)

 Fellow

2 (1.6%)

126 (98.4%)

 Staff

1 (0.6%)

170 (99.4%)

Department, n (%)^†

0.04^b

 General/Others

10 (5.5%)

171 (94.5%)

 Medical

16 (6.0%)

249 (94.0%)

 Surgical

5 (1.9%)

254 (98.1%)

Direct care of COVID-19 patients, n (%)^†

 < 0.01^b

 Yes

23 (6.9%)

310 (93.1%)

 No

8 (2.2%)

364 (97.8%)

High aerosolization work settings, n (%)^†

0.58^b

 Yes

16 (5.0%)

306 (95.0%)

 No

15 (3.9%)

368 (96.1%)

Previous influenza vaccination, n (%)^†

0.43^b

 Never

1 (5.0%)

19 (95.0%)

 Sometimes

6 (2.9%)

200 (97.1%)

 Yearly

24 (5.0%)

455 (95.0%)

Preferred vaccine type, n (%)^†

 < 0.01^b

 Inactivated

1 (0.6%)

161 (99.4%)

 Viral vector

7 (5.7%)

115 (94.3%)

 mRNA

18 (7.2%)

233 (92.8%)

 Any

5 (2.9%)

165 (97.1%)

Information sources, n (%)^†

 Articles/Scientific journal

16 (3.5%)

442 (96.5%)

0.12^b

 TV/Newspaper

7 (2.8%)

242 (97.2%)

0.18^b

 Social media

26 (5.5%)

447 (94.5%)

0.05^b

 Hospital media

5 (1.7%)

290 (98.3%)

 < 0.01^b

 Academic conference

6 (3.1%)

190 (96.9%)

0.41^b

 Friend/Family

5 (2.8%)

175 (97.2%)

0.29^b

 Others

0 (0.0%)

1 (100.0%)

0.9^b

Willingness to recommend vaccine to family, n (%)^†

 < 0.01^c

 Yes

8 (1.4%)

546 (98.6%)

 No

10 (50.0%)

10 (50.0%)

 Not sure

13 (9.9%)

118 (90.1%)

Willingness to recommend vaccine to patients, n (%)^†

 < 0.01^c

 Yes

11 (1.9%)

562 (98.1%)

 No

3 (21.4%)

11 (78.6%)

 Not sure

17 (14.4%)

101 (85.6%)