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Editor, Senior Moderator
BMC Public Health
. 2022 Sep 24;22(1):1819.
doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14182-w.
Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake among healthcare workers in tertiary care hospitals, Bangladesh: Study protocol for influenza vaccine supply and awareness intervention
Md Zakiul Hassan[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Tahmina Shirin[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Mahbubur Rahman[SUP] 3 [/SUP], A S M Alamgir[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Nusrat Jahan[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Md Abdullah Al Jubayer Biswas[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sazzad Hossain Khan[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Md Ahmed Khairul Basher[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Md Ariful Islam[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Kamal Hussain[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Md Nazrul Islam[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Md Arif Rabbany[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Md Azizul Haque[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Shishir Ranjan Chakraborty[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Syeda Rukhshana Parvin[SUP] 8 [/SUP], Mahmudur Rahman[SUP] 9 [/SUP], Fahmida Chowdhury[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
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Abstract
Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs), such as doctors, nurses, and support staffs involved in direct or indirect patient care, are at increased risk of influenza virus infections due to occupational exposures. Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent influenza. Despite the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, Bangladesh lacks a seasonal influenza vaccination policy for HCWs, and thus vaccination rates remain low. The current project aims to investigate the effect of interventions on influenza vaccine awareness and availability of vaccine supply, explore HCWs' knowledge and perceptions about influenza vaccination, understand the barriers and motivators for influenza vaccine uptake, and understand policymakers' views on the practicality of influenza vaccination among HCWs.
Method: We will conduct the study at four tertiary care teaching hospitals in Bangladesh, using a cluster randomized controlled trial approach, with the hospital as the unit of randomization and intervention. The study population will include all types of HCWs.The four different types of intervention will be randomly allocated and implemented in four study hospitals separately. The four interventions will be: i) ensuring the availability of influenza vaccine supply; ii) developing influenza vaccine awareness; iii) both ensuring influenza vaccine supply and developing influenza vaccine awareness and iv) control arm with no intervention. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches will be applied to assess the intervention effect. We will estimate the Difference in Differences (DID) with 95% CI of the proportion of vaccine uptake between each intervention and control (non-intervention) arm, adjusting for the clustering effect. The qualitative data will be summarised using a framework matrix method.
Discussion: The results of this study will inform the development and implementation of a context-specific strategy to enhance influenza vaccination rates among Bangladeshi HCWs.
Trial registration: Clinicaltrials.gov NCT05521763. Version 2.0 was registered in September 2022, and the first participant enrolled in March 2022. Retrospectively registered.
Keywords: Barriers and motivators; Healthcare worker; Influenza vaccination; Influenza vaccine awareness; Knowledge and perceptions; Policymakers' views.
. 2022 Sep 24;22(1):1819.
doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14182-w.
Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake among healthcare workers in tertiary care hospitals, Bangladesh: Study protocol for influenza vaccine supply and awareness intervention
Md Zakiul Hassan[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Tahmina Shirin[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Mahbubur Rahman[SUP] 3 [/SUP], A S M Alamgir[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Nusrat Jahan[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Md Abdullah Al Jubayer Biswas[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sazzad Hossain Khan[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Md Ahmed Khairul Basher[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Md Ariful Islam[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Kamal Hussain[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Md Nazrul Islam[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Md Arif Rabbany[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Md Azizul Haque[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Shishir Ranjan Chakraborty[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Syeda Rukhshana Parvin[SUP] 8 [/SUP], Mahmudur Rahman[SUP] 9 [/SUP], Fahmida Chowdhury[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 36153529
- DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-14182-w
Abstract
Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs), such as doctors, nurses, and support staffs involved in direct or indirect patient care, are at increased risk of influenza virus infections due to occupational exposures. Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent influenza. Despite the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, Bangladesh lacks a seasonal influenza vaccination policy for HCWs, and thus vaccination rates remain low. The current project aims to investigate the effect of interventions on influenza vaccine awareness and availability of vaccine supply, explore HCWs' knowledge and perceptions about influenza vaccination, understand the barriers and motivators for influenza vaccine uptake, and understand policymakers' views on the practicality of influenza vaccination among HCWs.
Method: We will conduct the study at four tertiary care teaching hospitals in Bangladesh, using a cluster randomized controlled trial approach, with the hospital as the unit of randomization and intervention. The study population will include all types of HCWs.The four different types of intervention will be randomly allocated and implemented in four study hospitals separately. The four interventions will be: i) ensuring the availability of influenza vaccine supply; ii) developing influenza vaccine awareness; iii) both ensuring influenza vaccine supply and developing influenza vaccine awareness and iv) control arm with no intervention. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches will be applied to assess the intervention effect. We will estimate the Difference in Differences (DID) with 95% CI of the proportion of vaccine uptake between each intervention and control (non-intervention) arm, adjusting for the clustering effect. The qualitative data will be summarised using a framework matrix method.
Discussion: The results of this study will inform the development and implementation of a context-specific strategy to enhance influenza vaccination rates among Bangladeshi HCWs.
Trial registration: Clinicaltrials.gov NCT05521763. Version 2.0 was registered in September 2022, and the first participant enrolled in March 2022. Retrospectively registered.
Keywords: Barriers and motivators; Healthcare worker; Influenza vaccination; Influenza vaccine awareness; Knowledge and perceptions; Policymakers' views.