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Prev Med. 2010 Nov 22. [Epub ahead of print]
The public's preventive strategies in response to the pandemic influenza A/H1N1 in France: Distribution and determinants.
Setbon M, Le Pape MC, L?troublon C, Caille-Brillet AL, Raude J.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Since the emergence of the pandemic influenza A/H1N1, people were encouraged to adopt a large range of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical measures to counter the risk of infection. The objective was to identify and to explain the different strategies adopted by the French general population to prevent influenza A/H1N1 infection.
METHODS: The data are based on a survey conducted by telephone on a sample representative of the French population (N=1003) administrated in December of 2009 (cooperation rate=45.9%). Logistic regressions were performed in order to characterize different types of prevention against influenza A/H1N1.
RESULTS: Four types of behavioral strategies were identified: 31.5% of the respondents combined vaccination (intention or action, regardless the nature of the vaccine) with non-pharmaceutical measures, 8.8% were willing to get exclusively vaccinated, 42.0% only carried out a non-pharmaceutical measure and 17.7% didn't protect themselves at all. Social and cognitive variables were found to significantly characterize and predict the adoption of each of these strategies.
CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that a large majority of the population adopted a selective strategy rather a cumulative one as recommended, choice mostly explained by the level of risk perception factors.
Copyright ? 2010. Published by Elsevier Inc.
PMID: 21108960 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
The public's preventive strategies in response to the pandemic influenza A/H1N1 in France: Distribution and determinants.
Setbon M, Le Pape MC, L?troublon C, Caille-Brillet AL, Raude J.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Since the emergence of the pandemic influenza A/H1N1, people were encouraged to adopt a large range of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical measures to counter the risk of infection. The objective was to identify and to explain the different strategies adopted by the French general population to prevent influenza A/H1N1 infection.
METHODS: The data are based on a survey conducted by telephone on a sample representative of the French population (N=1003) administrated in December of 2009 (cooperation rate=45.9%). Logistic regressions were performed in order to characterize different types of prevention against influenza A/H1N1.
RESULTS: Four types of behavioral strategies were identified: 31.5% of the respondents combined vaccination (intention or action, regardless the nature of the vaccine) with non-pharmaceutical measures, 8.8% were willing to get exclusively vaccinated, 42.0% only carried out a non-pharmaceutical measure and 17.7% didn't protect themselves at all. Social and cognitive variables were found to significantly characterize and predict the adoption of each of these strategies.
CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that a large majority of the population adopted a selective strategy rather a cumulative one as recommended, choice mostly explained by the level of risk perception factors.
Copyright ? 2010. Published by Elsevier Inc.
PMID: 21108960 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
