Reasons for low influenza vaccination coverage: cross-sectional survey in Poland.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To assess the reasons for low influenza vaccination coverage in Poland, including knowledge of influenza and attitudes toward influenza vaccination.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional, anonymous, self-administered survey in primary care patients in Lodzkie voivodship (central Poland). The study participants were adults who visited their primary care physicians for various reasons from January 1 to April 30, 2007.

Results

Six hundred and forty participants completed the survey. In 12 months before the study, 20.8% participants had received influenza vaccination. The most common reasons listed by those who had not been vaccinated were good health (27.6%), lack of trust in vaccination effectiveness (16.8%), and the cost of vaccination (9.7%). The most common source o

SUBMITTER: Kardas P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3081210 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature