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    The Acceptance of the COVID-19 Vaccination Among Sixth Year Medical Students in Nile University
    (Nile University, 2022) Suliman,Reem Mubarak; Saad Omer,Nada Sami; Bashir Mohamed,Mohammed Omar; Hussien,Najla Ibrahim; Abd Elhman ,Muna Mohamed; Lapai,Sakina Isah; Ahmed,Akram Abdelrahman
    : The novel coronavirus first emerged in December 2019 and quickly developed into a global pandemic of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by March 2020. [1] Since then, the number of COVID-19 cases has been escalating and as of 4th August 2022 there had been over 578 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 including over 6.4 million deaths. vaccination could be the key protective measure against the spread of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This study aimed to assess the level of acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine its determinants among medical students. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study conducting by applying questionnaire based on google form was sent via WhatsApp from 20th June to 2th July 2022. Data was analyzed by using a SPSS version 26. Chi-square test was used to assess the association between acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine and demographical information, non-demographical information, and belief that Covid-19 vaccination is a good preventative measure against the spread of Coronavirus. Result: Out of the 135 students, 101 was selected using simple random sampling to be included in our study. Over 90% of students were under the age of 26 with females slightly more than males. The majority of students were Sudanese (n=94, 93.1%), with foreigners totaling fifteen students (14.9%). The level of acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine was less than hesitancy (n=46, n=55). The most cited reasons for accepting the vaccine were to protect themselves and others from COVID-19 infection (n=25, 54.4%), (n=18, 39.1%). Concerns about possible side effects of the vaccine (n=18, 40%) and doubts over its efficacy (n=13, 28.9%) were the main reasons reported by those who were hesitant. Significant factors associated with vaccine acceptance was increased perceived risk of contracting Covid 19 (p value= 0.034) as well as level of agreement towards ‘Covid 19 being a good preventative measure against the spread of Coronavirus’ (p value=.000). No demographic association was found with acceptance towards the vaccine.