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Alternative Title:
J Infect Dev Ctries
Personal Author:
Madewell, Zachary J ; Chacón-Fuentes, Rafael ; Badilla-Vargas, Xiomara ; Ramirez, Catalina ; Ortiz, Maria-Renee ; ... More +
Madewell, Zachary J ; Chacón-Fuentes, Rafael ; Badilla-Vargas, Xiomara ; Ramirez, Catalina ; Ortiz, Maria-Renee ; Alvis-Estrada, Juan-Pablo ; Jara, Jorge Less -
Description:
Introduction:

Annual seasonal influenza vaccination in healthcare workers prevents nosocomial transmission to patients, coworkers, and visitors, and reduces absenteeism. This study aimed to describe knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of seasonal influenza vaccine among public healthcare workers attending patients in Costa Rica.

Methodology:

We conducted a cross-sectional survey of healthcare personnel attending patients in public hospitals in 2017–2018. Frequency distributions of demographics, vaccination KAP, sources of information, clinical manifestations and reasons for non-vaccination were reported. Logistic regression was used to analyze associations between exposures of interest (demographics, sources of information, knowledge, attitudes towards vaccination) and self-reported influenza vaccination.

Results:

We surveyed 747 healthcare workers in 2017–2018. Of 706 participants who knew their vaccination status, 55.7% were vaccinated for seasonal influenza. Only 20.7% of participants knew the influenza vaccine was an inactivated virus, and 94.6% believed the vaccine causes flu-like symptoms. Factors associated with current influenza vaccination were vaccination in previous year (aOR: 8.13; 95% CI: 5.65–11.71) and believed influenza vaccination may be harmful (aOR: 0.62; 95% CI: 0.44–0.89). Reasons for non-vaccination included fear of adverse effects and access limitations.

Conclusions:

Suboptimal influenza vaccination among healthcare workers may be attributed to misconceptions about the vaccine and limited engagement strategies focusing on healthcare workers. Appropriate interventions are needed to increase healthcare worker vaccination rates and improve their knowledge and beneficence, which would improve patient safety in hospitals.


Subjects:
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Absenteeism Adult Cross-Sectional Studies Female Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Health Personnel Humans Influenza, Human Influenza Vaccines Male Middle Aged Seasons Surveys And Questionnaires Vaccines, Inactivated Young Adult
Source:
J Infect Dev Ctries. 15(7):1004-1013
Pubmed ID:
34343126
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC9131022
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
D43 TW009343/TW/FIC NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 GH001003/GH/CGH CDC HHSUnited States/
D43 TW009343/TW/FIC NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 GH001003/GH/CGH CDC HHSUnited States/ Less -
Place as Subject:
Costa Rica
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:af0753f4ce9a007d31184bfd46a51c9548b8c7ee18a39124337aac35f2e3427c
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/117908/cdc_117908_DS1.pdf
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