Knowledge, attitude and awareness among healthcare professionals about influenza vaccination in Peshawar, Pakistan

Highlights • Among Pakistani health care professional vaccination against influenza is not a common practice. • Overall, nurses have better knowledge and understanding about influenza. • Due to needle fear most do not like to get vaccinated. • Most of the health professional believes that it is not...

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Published in:Vaccine 2016-03, Vol.34 (11), p.1393-1398
Main Authors: Khan, Tahir Mehmood, Khan, Aziz Ullah, Ali, Iftikhar, Wu, David Bin-Chia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age
Allergy and Immunology
Attitude
Attitude of Health Personnel
Awareness
Confidence intervals
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Gender
Health care
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Healthcare professionals
Hospitals
Humans
Immunization
Infections
Influenza
Influenza Vaccines - therapeutic use
Influenza, Human - prevention & control
Knowledge
Male
Medical personnel
Mortality
Nurses - statistics & numerical data
Nutritionists
Pakistan
Patient safety
Patients
Pharmacists - statistics & numerical data
Physicians - statistics & numerical data
Questionnaires
Regression analysis
Research centers
Vaccination
Vaccination - statistics & numerical data
Vaccines
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Summary:Highlights • Among Pakistani health care professional vaccination against influenza is not a common practice. • Overall, nurses have better knowledge and understanding about influenza. • Due to needle fear most do not like to get vaccinated. • Most of the health professional believes that it is not compulsory to get vaccinated for influenza.
ISSN:0264-410X
1873-2518
DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.01.045