Sehhaty App for COVID-19 Vaccine Reporting

The Sehhaty application was launched under the umbrella of digital transformation initiatives by the Saudi MOH aiming to provide access to several healthcare services for individuals in the Kingdom. These services included consultations, PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2, booking COVID-19 vaccine appointments, and reporting COVID-19 vaccines side-effects through the option of manual entering and/or drop box option selection (16 ). Indeed, the Sehhaty application offers a checkbox option to report symptoms for the received vaccine. The following symptoms were available for users to select from in the following order: injection site itching, wheezing, fatigue, hoarseness, low fever, anxiety, fever above or below 39°C, heartburn, injection site swelling, headache, loss of consciousness, nausea, injection site redness, injection site pain, itchiness other than injection site, seizure, dizziness, difficulty or shortness of breath, sleep disruption, swelling of lips, face, and throat, and intensive care unit (ICU) admission. The study participants were provided with a checkbox list that included all of the aforementioned side-effects and were given the option to select from the list if they experienced any of them. Another helpful feature was the registration of the date and the start of symptoms, which allowed for filtering and limiting the studied side-effects to be within a window of 14 days post-vaccination (7 (link)). Participants' demographics data were collected and included: age, gender, nationality, region, COVID-19 vaccine type, the number of vaccine doses, date of vaccination, and date of ICU admission.