A survey on the current status and related factors of influenza vaccination among health care workers in tertiary hospitals of Xining city during the influenza epidemic season from 2017 to 2018

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Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2019 Oct 6;53(10):1018-1021. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0253-9624.2019.10.012. [A survey on the current status and related factors of influenza vaccination among health care workers in tertiary hospitals of Xining city during the influenza epidemic season from 2017 to 2018].

[Article in Chinese; Abstract available in Chinese from the publisher]

Ma YY¹, Zhang LJ², Shi Y³, Ma BZ³, Wang WJ¹, Cao HL³, Zhao JH³, Zhang HY³, Yang JS⁴, Li YH³, Feng HX³, Peng ZB⁵, Feng LZ⁵, Xu LL³.
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1 Business Administration Department, Qinghai Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Xining 810007, China. 2 China Field Epidemiology Training Program, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing102206, China. 3 Division of Infectious Disease, Qinghai Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Xining 810007, China. 4 Occupational Diseases and Public Health Institutions, Qinghai Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Xining 810007, China. 5 Division of Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China.

Abstract

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Objective: To evaluate the current status and related factors of influenza vaccination among health care workers (HCWs) in tertiary hospitals of Xining city after the implementation of the free influenza vaccination policy. Methods: In August 2018, the cluster sampling method was used to select four medical institutions in Xining that had previously conducted investigations and interventions. All HCWs(excluding logistic staff) in each medical institution were included in the study. A total of 3 260 valid respondents were included. Questionnaires were used to collect the demographic characteristics, influenza and influenza vaccination awareness, implementation of free policy in the influenza epidemic season from 2017 to 2018, influenza vaccination status, awareness of influenza vaccination schedule and free policy. The multivariate logistic regression model was used to analyze related factors of influenza vaccination. Results: The age of respondents was (31.41?5.00) years. The influenza vaccination rate was 6.80% (226/3 260) in 2017-2018 influenza epidemic season. After controlling for related factors, the awareness of the influenza vaccination schedule (OR=17.05, 95%CI: 5.86-49.59), vaccination frequency (OR=8.22, 95%CI: 2.98-22.61) and the free policy (OR=3.15, 95%CI: 1.49-6.67) had higher vaccination rate. Conclusion: The influenza vaccination rate of HCWs in tertiary hospitals of Xining city was low. Increasing the awareness of the vaccination schedule, frequency and free policy may promote the influenza vaccination rate of HCWs.


KEYWORDS:

Influenza vaccine; Medical staff; Vaccination

PMID: 31607048 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0253-9624.2019.10.012
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