• Soumya Mahapatra, Ruchi Nagpal, C M Marya, Pratibha Taneja, and Sakshi Kataria.
• Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences and Research, Haryana, India. Electronic address: soumyasam9218@gmail.com.
• Int. Immunopharmacol. 2021 Nov 1; 100: 108136.

BackgroundHealthcare professionals (HCPs) are at the front line of the nation's fight against COVID-19 and are always at a greater risk of contracting contagious disease. But amidst the crisis, the vaccines were not accepted by all the HCPs due to adverse events occurring post-COVID-19 vaccination. Hence, the present study was designed to assess adverse events occurring among HCPs post-COVID-19 vaccination both quantitatively and qualitatively.MethodSequential mixed-method approach was employed. A cross-sectional E-survey was conducted among the healthcare professionals of a North Indian (*Statistically significant (p < 0.05)) college and hospital. The second phase included a semi-structured qualitative interview of the participants who were willing to participate.ResultsAmong all the HCPs with age groups ranging from 20 to 70 years, majority of them experienced pain at the site of injection (88.8-100%) followed by tiredness (87.7-60%) and body ache (86.6-40%) post-vaccination. There is an increased frequency of adverse events in females as compared to males. Qualitative findings are summarised in three major domains i.e vaccine adverse effects, fear and hesitancy for vaccines and vaccine acceptance.ConclusionShort term adverse events of COVISHIELD vaccine were very few and were mild in severity yet interviews showed hesitancy of study participants for vaccination.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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