Grenada Country Report - COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Survey Report 2021

Vaccination has emerged as the best possible tool to stem the tide of a pandemic which is having a profoundly negative impact on children and their families.

UNICEF and USAID commissioned Caribbean Development Research Services Inc (CADRES) to conduct a survey on vaccine hesitancy across six countries: Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. The study was carried out in October and November 2021 and explores the extent of, and reasons for, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and if anything can be done to change the minds of those reluctant to take the vaccines.

These are the findings for Grenada.

Demographics

The Grenada survey was conducted face-to-face with 800 participants, evenly spread across males and females and three age ranges. 54% said they were parents. The majority were employed, had a secondary-level education and 15% reported being unemployed because of COVID-19. This was the highest COVID-related unemployment level among the six countries.

General findings

60% of respondents in Grenada said they had been vaccinated. Of the six countries surveyed, Grenada was the second least vaccine hesitant (after Barbados and tied with Trinidad and Tobago), according to the Vaccine Hesitancy Index tool used in this study. The country scored 4.4

on this index where 1 is a perfect score, 3 is the objective score and 10 an imperfect one.