Table 2 Topics explored in the focus group discussions and interviews.

From: Barriers and drivers of positive COVID-19 vaccination behaviours among healthcare workers in Europe and Central Asia: a qualitative cross-country synthesis

• Experience of the COVID-19 pandemic—biggest challenges, support that helped

• Being vaccinated as a healthcare worker

Vaccinated healthcare workers

- Reasons for having the vaccine

- Information sought/ needed to make a decision

- Trainings or lectures on safety and efficacy

Unvaccinated healthcare workers

- Reasons for not having the vaccine

- Information sought/ needed to make a decision

- Trainings or lectures on safety and efficacy

- Who should recommend the vaccine to persuade individuals

- Willingness to get vaccinated/or have the booster done

For all healthcare workers

- Evidence of vaccine safety

- Choice of vaccine source

- Evidence of vaccine effectiveness

- Attitude towards COVID-19 vaccine—changes and influences

- Reasons for/ for not having booster dose

- Acceptance of other vaccines for healthcare workers—flu vaccine and hepatitis B

- Conditions for coming to work—receiving the vaccine or showing negative PCR

- Trust in national decision-makers

- What is needed from public health experts and health facility management

• Recommending a COVID-19 vaccine

Role in recommending the COVID-19 vaccine

- Vaccine recommendations to patients who have not vaccinated

- Vaccine priority groups

- Booster dose recommendation to unvaccinated groups

- Booster dose priority groups

- Support to help recommend the vaccine or booster dose

- Discussions/workshops on vaccine safety and efficacy

- Public declaration of vaccine

- Patients’ reaction regarding COVID-19 vaccine

- Reasons for patient’s vaccine/booster dose hesitancy

- Vaccine refusal groups/individuals

Conversations with patients

- Vaccine recommendations to patients who have not vaccinated

- Vaccine priority groups

• Delivering a COVID-19 vaccine to your patients

- Views on the way population vaccination is organised and suggestions for improvement.

- Views on expanding the range of health professionals who would administer the vaccine (pharmacists, dentists)

- Thoughts on increasing motivation among citizens—close and accessible vaccination points (e.g. shopping malls), or field/mobile vaccination sites

Suggestions to improve this process

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