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

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