TY - JOUR
T1 - Visualizing knowledge and attitude factors related to influenza vaccination of physicians
AU - CIBERESP Working Group for the Survey on InfluenzaVaccination in Primary Health Care Workers
AU - Antón-Ladislao, Ane
AU - García-Gutiérrez, Susana
AU - Soldevila, Núria
AU - González-Candelas, Fernando
AU - Godoy, Pere
AU - Castilla, Jesús
AU - Mayoral, José María
AU - Astray, Jenaro
AU - Martín, Vicente
AU - Tamames, Sonia
AU - Toledo, Diana
AU - Aguirre, Urko
AU - Domínguez, Angela
AU - Alonso, Jordi
AU - Caleró, Sebastian
AU - Caylà, Joan
AU - Torner, Nuria
AU - Diaz, José
AU - Cenoz, Manuel García
AU - Quintana, José María
AU - González, Amaia Bilbao
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Institute of Health Carlos III , Programme of Research on Influenza A/H1N1 (grant GR09/0030 ), and the Catalan Agency for the Management of Grants for University Research (AGAUR grant number 2009/SGR 42 ). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, the decision to publish or the preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/2/11
Y1 - 2015/2/11
N2 - Purpose: To characterize groups of primary healthcare physicians according to sociodemographic data, years of professional experience and knowledge of and attitudes to influenza, and to evaluate differences between groups with respect to influenza vaccination in the 2011-2012 season. Methods: We carried out an anonymous web survey of Spanish primary healthcare physicians in 2012. Information on vaccination, and knowledge of and attitudes to influenza was collected. Multiple correspondence analysis and cluster analysis were used to define groups of physicians. Results: We included 835 physicians and identified three types. Type B were physicians with low professional experience of influenza. Types A and C were physicians with high professional experience with influenza, type A also had a high awareness of influenza and seasonal vaccination. Types A and C were older and more often male than type B (p < 0.0001). Knowledge of influenza was greatest in type A and lowest in type B. Awareness of influenza was greatest in type A and lowest in type C. In type A, 71.0% of physicians were vaccinated in the 2011-2012 season, compared with 48.1% and 33.6% from types B and C, respectively (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Additional efforts should be made to increase interest and concerns about preventing the transmission of influenza in physicians who do not believe influenza is a severe disease and are not concerned about its transmission.
AB - Purpose: To characterize groups of primary healthcare physicians according to sociodemographic data, years of professional experience and knowledge of and attitudes to influenza, and to evaluate differences between groups with respect to influenza vaccination in the 2011-2012 season. Methods: We carried out an anonymous web survey of Spanish primary healthcare physicians in 2012. Information on vaccination, and knowledge of and attitudes to influenza was collected. Multiple correspondence analysis and cluster analysis were used to define groups of physicians. Results: We included 835 physicians and identified three types. Type B were physicians with low professional experience of influenza. Types A and C were physicians with high professional experience with influenza, type A also had a high awareness of influenza and seasonal vaccination. Types A and C were older and more often male than type B (p < 0.0001). Knowledge of influenza was greatest in type A and lowest in type B. Awareness of influenza was greatest in type A and lowest in type C. In type A, 71.0% of physicians were vaccinated in the 2011-2012 season, compared with 48.1% and 33.6% from types B and C, respectively (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Additional efforts should be made to increase interest and concerns about preventing the transmission of influenza in physicians who do not believe influenza is a severe disease and are not concerned about its transmission.
KW - Attitudes
KW - Influenza vaccination
KW - Knowledge
KW - Physicians
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U2 - 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.012
DO - 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.012
M3 - Article
C2 - 25529290
AN - SCOPUS:84921745528
VL - 33
SP - 885
EP - 891
JO - Vaccine
JF - Vaccine
SN - 0264-410X
IS - 7
ER -