A Comparison of the Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Rates and Related Factors
Journal Title: The Medical Bulletin of Haseki - Year 2020, Vol 58, Issue 3
Abstract
Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of vaccine recommendations on vaccine uptake, patients’ attitudes, influenza vaccination rates, and flu-like illness in the previous year. Methods: A cross-sectional study was designed with patients (aged ≥18 years) who attended family medicine-vaccine clinics at a tertiary hospital between November 2019 and January 2020. Results: The influenza vaccination rate among 391 patients (mean age: 39.9±13.5 years) was 22.5% (88/391), and the rate of participants who were recommended to receive the vaccine was 25.3% of all with a moderate agreement (Kappa=0.39 p<0.001), although 81.3% of the subjects believed that the vaccine was beneficial and half of the patients (50.5%) positively reacted when their physician recommended. Seventeen point nine of patients who had flu-like illnesses in the previous year (72.6%) had been vaccinated. Experienced side-effect, fear of side effects and injection, and vaccine hesitancy were not barriers to vaccination acceptance. The presence of recommendation [p<0.001; Odds ratio (OR): 5.35; 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.92-9.78], information on timing of vaccination (p=0.001; OR: 4.18; 95% CI: 1.82-9.59), and belief about benefits of vaccine (p=0.01; OR: 5.42; 95% CI: 1.40-21.03) were the predictors of vaccine acceptance. Conclusion: This study would contribute to a strategy, including (i) doctors’ vaccine recommendation, (ii) patient’s belief of benefit (iii) vaccination schedule (month) information, to increase the rates of influenza vaccination.
Authors and Affiliations
Melike Mercan Başpınar, Ezgi Tanımlı, Sıddıka Gedik Depreli, Hilal Kale Aktaş, Recep Aktaş, Okcan Basat
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