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- Infection and adherence to COVID-19 vaccination in dentists and healthcare professionalsPublication . Pereira, Mariana de Fátima Duarte; Monteiro, Patrícia Manarte; Teixeira, LilianaIntroduction: The COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection generates severe symptoms similar to acute respiratory infection. Vaccination has been one of the means of intervention to reduce the risk of the disease. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the infection and vaccination rates of COVID-19, and the relationship with the contact hours of clinical practical teaching at FCS-UFP and/or the professional activity of dentistry of the teachers/dentists of MIMD-UFP for 1 year. It was also intended to complement the analysis with a literature review. Materials and methods: Pilot, observational, prospective study, approved by the UFP Ethics Committee (FCS/PI-172/21; June 9, 2021). Questionnaire self-administered online in July 2021, updated in December 2021 and June 2022, to all (N=62) teaching professionals/dentists of the UFP-Dentistry integrated master's training. Professionals who agreed to take part and completed the entire survey (July 2021) were included, as regards to demographic questions, history of SARS-CoV-2 infection, data on COVID-19 vaccination and contact hours of dentistry teaching/clinical practice. A descriptive and inferential analysis was carried out on the effect of the variables collected, with a value of p < 0.05 considered as significant. A complementary literature review was carried out using the PICO and PRISMA approaches. The search strategy included five main MeSH terms. Only systematic reviews and/or meta-analysis articles were included, covering surveys on the history of SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or vaccination, applied to healthcare professionals, published between 2020 and 2023 and written in English. Results: Forty-seven dental teachers/doctors took part (75.8% of the population), 32 (68.1%) women and 15 (31.9%) men with an average age of 42.38 years (26 to 65 years); the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate was 8.5% in July 2021, increased by 2.1% in December and was 40.4% in June 2022. The vaccination rate of the sample varied from 91.5% in July 2021 to 93.6% in June 2022. The unvaccinated individuals were women with an average age of 45.8 ± 13.7 years. Professional dentistry activity/clinical teaching showed no significant relationship with the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the period prior to vaccination (until July 2021) or 1 year after the first vaccination (June 2022). In the six articles included in this study, there was a decrease in COVID-19 infection rates after the introduction of the vaccines. Vaccination rates ranged from 51% to 65.65% among the population of healthcare workers studied. Vaccination rates were highest among students (81.1%) and dentists (60.5%). The studies used various data collection methods: consultations, online questionnaires, by email, telephone, message, personal interview or self-administered. Conclusions: In this population, most SARS-CoV-2 infections occurred between December 2021 and June 2022; most individuals were already vaccinated in July 2021. Hours of professional contact did not significantly influence infection or vaccination rates in this population. The literature states that although vaccination was well accepted by the study populations, the main reasons for non-adherence to vaccination were due to concerns about potential side effects.