Healthcare providers' awareness, attitudes, beliefs, and practices surrounding pharmacist-administered vaccination: Insights after a two-year intervention.

ABSTRACT: Despite the expanding scope of pharmacists' practice to include immunization, vaccine coverage among adults in Canada remains below national targets. We conducted online surveys of healthcare providers (HCPs) that provide vaccines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada, to determine their perceptions about pharmacists as immunizers. A validated and pre-tested cross-sectional survey was distributed to pharmacists, physicians, and nurses via professional associations, health authorities, and social media. Of the 223 respondents, 41.3% were pharmacists, 24.7% nurses and 34.1% physicians. Pharmacists described experiencing more social (81.0%) and professional (62.0%) pressure to administer vaccines, as compared to nurses (58.2% and 27.9%) and physicians (60.0% and 9.1%) (p = .004 and

SUBMITTER: Di Castri AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12773461 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature