Demand and motivation for influenza vaccination among healthcare workers before and during the COVID-19 era: a cross-sectional survey

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15110/21:73608294

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21645515.2021.1911212" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21645515.2021.1911212</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1911212" target="_blank" >10.1080/21645515.2021.1911212</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Demand and motivation for influenza vaccination among healthcare workers before and during the COVID-19 era: a cross-sectional survey

Original language description

Protection of healthcare workers (HCWs) against influenza is essential for patient health and a functional health system. The study aimed to analyze the demand for seasonal influenza vaccination (SIV) among various groups of HCWs in a tertiary care hospital before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify their motives for this season’s SIV. Before this influenza season (2020/21), the hospital management offered free SIV to all HCWs and promoted it on the internal network. Out of 4,167 HCWs, 630 HCWs expressed interest in SIV and were vaccinated in the hospital. They filled in a total of 603 self-administered pen-and-paper questionnaires. The mean age of the respondents (374 females and 229 males) was 45 ± 12 years. Physicians accounted for 48% of the vaccinated persons but for only 24% (p < .001) of all HCWs to whom SIV was offered. Only 16% of respondents vaccinated this year also received SIV before the last season (2019/20), with the proportion of physicians (19%) being statistically significantly higher than that of non-physicians (13%, p = .045) and the proportion of chronically ill HCWs (22%) being higher than that of healthy individuals (13%, p = .004). Most frequently, respondents’ motivation to get vaccinated this year was self-protection (61%), that is concerns about contracting influenza together with COVID-19 or alone, followed by family protection (58%) and patient protection (53%). In conclusion, COVID-19 contributed to an increased demand for SIV among HCWs and the threat of contracting it together with influenza was the most frequent motive.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30305 - Occupational health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

ISSN

2164-5515

e-ISSN

2164-554X

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

3113-3118

UT code for WoS article

000640627000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85104379464