uptake of the covid-19 vaccination and its contributed factors among reproductive-aged women in the northeast ethiopia in 2022

Background & aim: ethiopia plans to immunize 20% of its population by the end of 2021. however, there is little data available on the vaccine’s current uptake in our nation.  this study aimed to assess the uptake of covid-19 vaccination and its contributors among reproductive-aged women in dessie town, northeast ethiopia, in 2022.methods: a community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in dessie town, northeast ethiopia, on february 2022. a multiple-stage stratified sampling method was employed to select 636 reproductive-aged women. a pretested researcher-made, semi structured questionnaire was administered by an interviewer to collect the data.  data were entered into the epi-data version 4.4.2.1 program and exported to the software spss version 25 for additional analysis. bivariable logistic regression was performed to ascertain the association between each independent variable. results: from 636 surveyed reproductive-aged women, 114 (18.1% (95% ci, 15.3%, 21.3%)) uptake the covid-19 vaccination. factors such as urban residency (aor=3.24, 95% ci 1.74, 6.03), primary educational level (aor=3.66, 95% ci 1.64, 1.71), having children (aor=2.16, 95% ci 1.32, 3.55), confirmed medical problems (aor=4.94, 95% ci 2.45, 9.97), favourable attitude (aor=4.01, 95% ci 2.38, 6.77), and practice of prevention strategies (aor=3.36, 95% ci 1.91, 5.91) were contributed to the use of the covid-19 vaccine.conclusion: the magnitude of uptake of covid-19 vaccination is still low. therefore, addressing the information regarding the vaccine to all women will be important.