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Knowledge and Attitudes of Healthcare Workers About Influenza: Why Are They Not Getting Vaccinated?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tracey Heimberger ,
Hwa-Gan Chang ,
Muhammad Shaikh ,
Lois Crotty ,
Dale Morse  and
Guthrie Birkhead
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Abstract

In a survey of employees at a chronic care psychiatric facility following an influenza outbreak, previous influenza vaccination (relative risk [RR], 69.7; 95% confidence interval [CI95], 25.2 to 192.4), age ≥ 50 years (RR, 2.4; CI95, 1.3 to 4.5), and knowledge that vaccine does not cause influenza (RR, 2.3; CI95, 1.3 to 3.7) were the factors most predictive of current influenza vaccination. Medical personnel were less likely than nonmedical employees to be vaccinated (RR, 0.5; CI95, 0.3 to 0.9). Educational efforts to address misconceptions about vaccination plus more vigorous administrative measures to vaccinate employees should be considered.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 7 , July 1995 , pp. 412 - 415
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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