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Vaccine. 2012 Jul 21. [Epub ahead of print]
Student nurses' reasons behind the decision to receive or decline influenza vaccine: A cross-sectional survey.
Hunt C, Arthur A.
Source
Division of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK.
Abstract
This cross-sectional questionnaire survey examined influenza vaccination among 430 student nurses. Only 12.2% (95% CI 9.1-15.3%) of student nurses received the seasonal vaccine regularly with 27.6% (95% CI 23.3-31.8%) ever having received seasonal or pandemic H1N1 vaccine. Intention to be vaccinated was associated with having previously been vaccinated (p<0.001) but not whether the vaccine was perceived as beneficial (p=0.36). Previous influenza illness was associated with having the influenza vaccine (p<0.001). The most frequently reported reason for receiving the seasonal influenza vaccine was being deemed at risk (42.4%) and for H1N1 vaccine was because it was offered for free (32.6%). For both vaccines the most reported reason for not being vaccinated was a perception of it not being needed. Student nurses form a substantial and influential part of the future healthcare workforce but to translate the widely held acceptance that influenza vaccine is beneficial into actual uptake, a more targeted and persuasive message is needed.
Copyright ? 2012. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PMID:
22828588
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Student nurses' reasons behind the decision to receive or decline influenza vaccine: A cross-sectional survey.
Hunt C, Arthur A.
Source
Division of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK.
Abstract
This cross-sectional questionnaire survey examined influenza vaccination among 430 student nurses. Only 12.2% (95% CI 9.1-15.3%) of student nurses received the seasonal vaccine regularly with 27.6% (95% CI 23.3-31.8%) ever having received seasonal or pandemic H1N1 vaccine. Intention to be vaccinated was associated with having previously been vaccinated (p<0.001) but not whether the vaccine was perceived as beneficial (p=0.36). Previous influenza illness was associated with having the influenza vaccine (p<0.001). The most frequently reported reason for receiving the seasonal influenza vaccine was being deemed at risk (42.4%) and for H1N1 vaccine was because it was offered for free (32.6%). For both vaccines the most reported reason for not being vaccinated was a perception of it not being needed. Student nurses form a substantial and influential part of the future healthcare workforce but to translate the widely held acceptance that influenza vaccine is beneficial into actual uptake, a more targeted and persuasive message is needed.
Copyright ? 2012. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PMID:
22828588
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
