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According to the international adult vaccination guidelines, pregnant women have been recommended to get vaccinated against the new coronavirus disease, as well as influenza and tetanus, during pregnancy. Before this study, not enough information was available about the vaccination awareness and vaccination hesitancy rates of pregnant women living in Turkey. For this reason, we believe that our study will contribute to filling this gap in the literature. The main objective of this study was to investigate the vaccination rates of pregnant women in a local hospital in Turkey and the reasons for vaccine hesitancy in this patient group. The minimum sample size of the study was found to be 241, with 80% power, 0.2 effect size, and 95% confidence interval, at p &lt; 0.05 significance level. We included 247 consecutive pregnant women who applied to the Samsun Training and Research Hospital Gynecology and Obstetrics Outpatient Clinics between January 2022 and April 2022. The researchers prepared a questionnaire by taking into account the characteristics of the local community. A preliminary survey with these questions was also conducted before starting the main study. The mean age of the pregnant women participating in the study was 28.7 \u00b1 5.3 years, and the mean gestational age was 28.2 \u00b1 7.9 weeks. Among the participants, 26.3% were university graduates or had a higher degree, and 17% were actively working; in addition, 93 (37.7%) of the 247 pregnant women had received the COVID-19 vaccine, 203 (82.2%) had received at least one dose of the tetanus vaccine, and only 1 (0.4%) person had been administered the influenza vaccine during pregnancy. The most common reason for COVID-19 vaccine refusal and hesitancy was safety concerns, while the low rates of tetanus and influenza vaccination were due to a lack of knowledge. These results show that it is important to inform and educate the pregnant population on this subject to improve their vaccination behavior.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/vaccines10111910","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,14]],"date-time":"2022-11-14T02:33:10Z","timestamp":1668393190000},"page":"1910","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and Factors Affecting Vaccine Hesitancy among Pregnant Women during the Pandemic Period in Turkey: A Single-Center Experience"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"D\u00fcriye Sila","family":"Karag\u00f6z \u00d6zen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Samsun Research and Training Hospital, 55090 Samsun, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Arzu","family":"Karag\u00f6z Kiraz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Samsun Research and Training Hospital, 55090 Samsun, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"\u00d6mer Faruk","family":"Yurt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Samsun University Medical Faculty, 55139 Samsun, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ilknur Zeynep","family":"Kili\u00e7","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Samsun University Medical Faculty, 55139 Samsun, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mehmet Derya","family":"Demira\u011f","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Samsun University Medical Faculty, 55139 Samsun, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"14","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ejim.2016.04.021","article-title":"European Federation of Internal Medicine ADVICE Working Group. 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