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Awareness, anxiety, compliance: Community perceptions and response to the threat and reality of an influenza pandemic

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Am J Infect Control. 2011 Jul 20. [Epub ahead of print]
Awareness, anxiety, compliance: Community perceptions and response to the threat and reality of an influenza pandemic.
Marshall H, Tooher R, Collins J, Mensah F, Braunack-Mayer A, Street J, Ryan P.
Source

Vacciniology and Immunology Research Trials Unit, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia; Discipline of Paediatrics, School of Paediatrics and Reproductive Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; Discipline of Public Health, School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Abstract

This study compared community response prior to and during the H1N1 2009 influenza pandemic using a cross-sectional phone survey of rural and metropolitan South Australia, conducted in 2007 and 2009. Awareness of pandemic influenza was significantly higher and anxiety lower in 2009 than in 2007. Reported seasonal influenza vaccine uptake increased from 51.7% in 2007 to 61.4% in 2009, but there was more interest in receiving pandemic vaccine in 2007 (87.5%) than in 2009 (57%).

Copyright ? 2011 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.

PMID:
21782279
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21782279
 
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