Health care professionals’ awareness of, knowledge about and attitude to influenza vaccination

Highlights • We investigated the awareness, knowledge, and attitude of health care professionals (HCPs) towards influenza vaccination. • Only 38% of HCPs surveyed in Saudi Arabian hospitals is vaccinated against influenza. • The most common reasons given by HCPs for not getting vaccinated were: fear...

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Published in:Vaccine 2014-10, Vol.32 (45), p.5957-5961
Main Authors: Alshammari, Thamir M, AlFehaid, Lama S, AlFraih, Joud K, Aljadhey, Hisham S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Allergy and Immunology
Applied microbiology
Attitude and knowledge
Attitude of Health Personnel
Biological and medical sciences
Compliance
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disease control
Drug stores
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Guideline Adherence - statistics & numerical data
Health care
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Personnel - statistics & numerical data
Health policy
Healthcare professional
Hospitals
Humans
Immunization
Influenza
Influenza vaccine
Influenza Vaccines - therapeutic use
Influenza, Human - prevention & control
Male
Microbiology
Nurses
Pharmacists
Questionnaires
Saudi Arabia
Surveys and Questionnaires
Vaccination - psychology
Vaccination - statistics & numerical data
Vaccines
Vaccines, antisera, therapeutical immunoglobulins and monoclonal antibodies (general aspects)
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Summary:Highlights • We investigated the awareness, knowledge, and attitude of health care professionals (HCPs) towards influenza vaccination. • Only 38% of HCPs surveyed in Saudi Arabian hospitals is vaccinated against influenza. • The most common reasons given by HCPs for not getting vaccinated were: fear of contracting illness. • The most common barrier that prevented institutions providing the influenza vaccine was HCPs’ and patients’ concerns about safety of vaccine. • Almost 75% of HCPs surveyed in Saudi Arabia were not aware of the influenza immunization guidelines.
ISSN:0264-410X
1873-2518
DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.08.061