Assessing public knowledge, attitudes and determinants of third COVID-19 vaccine booster dose acceptance: current scenario and future perspectives

Table 3 Participants attitude about the third COVID-19 vaccine booster dose according to demographic variables

Demographic	Groups	Participants attitude
Demographic	Groups	Mean ± SD		Median	P-value
Gender	Male	69.243	0.895	70.86	0.207
Gender	Female	70.602	0.599	70.81	0.207
Age	18–22	70.910	0.891	70.44	0.138
	23–26	69.677	0.801	70.34
	27–30	68.655	1.075	70.81
	31–36	73.819	2.247	79.2
	≥ 37	72.917	2.414	70.88
Nationality	Emirati	71.829	1.043	70.80	0.01*
	African	67.907	1.043	68.7
	Western	67.269	1.106	67.5
	Asian	71.669	0.928	71.8
	Arabic	73.895	1.738	75
Education	Primary school/elementary	72.087	1.024	71.8	0.001*
	Secondary education	69.701	0.797	70.87
	Diploma	65.985	0.874	68.8
	University degree	64.173	1.369	70.8
	Post-graduate degree	83.134	1.302	85.4
Employment	Student	53.929	0.458	56.2	0.001*
	Unemployed	66.719	0.511	66.6
	Employee in non-health sector	72.699	0.438	72.9
	Employee in health sector	83.516	0.415	81.3
Do you have any chronic diseases	Yes	60.590	1.395	60.4	0.001*
Do you have any chronic diseases	No	71.456	0.509	70.8	0.001*
Do you have any of your relatives who infected with the Covid-19	Yes	81.739	0.560	79.2	< 0.001*
	No	63.260	0.434	66.7	< 0.001*
Have you ever infected with Covid-19	Yes	88.000	0.951	85.4	< 0.001*
Have you ever infected with Covid-19	No	66.715	0.420	68.7	< 0.001*
Have you received first two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine	Yes	71.921	0.548	70.83	< 0.001*
Have you received first two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine	No	64.347	1.004	66.6	< 0.001*
Have you admitted to hospital due to COVID-19 symptoms	Yes	91.534	1.261	89.6	< 0.001*
Have you admitted to hospital due to COVID-19 symptoms	No	67.740	0.426	70.8	< 0.001*

^*P-values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant, P-values obtained from the Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney U tests

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