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Background: Various vaccines have been developed, licensed, and administered against COVID-19 infection to combat the disease globally including in India. The behavior, expectations, views, and awareness of dental clinics in India for COVID-19 vaccination are not well understood. Aim(s): The present survey study aimed to assess the expectations, views, and awareness in Indian dental clinics concerning the COVID-19 vaccination. Method(s): The present survey study included 900 subjects seeking dental care treatment in Indian dental clinics. The questionnaire used in the present survey study comprising of four parts. The participants filled out the survey after giving informed consent. The 4 parts of the survey were demographics, knowledge, attitude, and perception. The data gathered was assessed statistically. Result(s): Mean awareness and attitude scores were significantly more in subjects with higher education, socioeconomic status, subjects residing in the urban areas, and who received all the vaccines previously. The attitude scores were also higher in subjects female subjects compared to male subjects. It was reported by 21.44% (n=83), 18.60% (n=72), 1.55% (n=6), and 58.39% (n=226) females reported that uninfected, infected, recovered, and everyone should be vaccinated. In males, these responses were reported by 26.70% (n=137), 24.17% (n=124), 1.55%(n=8), and 47.56% (n=244) males respectively. Conclusion(s): It can be concluded from the results of the present study that subjects visiting Indian dental clinics lack awareness concerning the COVID-19 vaccine. However, these subjects have more optimism in their attitude toward the vaccine. Before vaccination, immediate promotion programs must be implemented to raise awareness. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.
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Advancements in financial system and technology, enlarged individual responsibility for financial decisions, and rapid information expansion, have fundamentally transformed women's need to be functionally literate and financially capable, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. The personality also has long term implications on financial well-being. The aim of the paper is to study the dominating role of financial attitude, financial awareness & skills, and financial behaviour on financial competence and the moderating role of personality on financial knowledge, financial behaviour, financial attitude, and financial capability. Multi stage stratified random sampling has been used to collect data from 530 urban working women in both the Public and Private sectors, self-employed professionals, and entrepreneurs. Smart-PLS is used by applying Structure Equation Modelling (SEM) to study the moderating role of personality on financial attitude, behaviour, knowledge, and capability. Further the Chi-square test and Tukey test and Kruskal Wallis Test are used to test the hypothesis. The study found that Financial Knowledge of working women with gold personalities influences their financial capability (Beta, 0.578) the most, While, Financial Behaviour is the primary influencer having green (Beta, 0.396) & blue (Beta, 0.638) personalities. Working women having Green Personality are found to be superior with respect to Financial Behaviour, Financial Capability and Financial Knowledge. It is also observed that working women having blue personality characteristics, have comparatively better financial attitude. © 2022 WITPress. All rights reserved.