"We don't routinely check vaccination background in adults": a national qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to vaccine delivery and uptake in adult migrants through UK primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Explore primary care professionals' views around barriers/facilitators to catch-up vaccination in adult migrants (foreign-born; over 18 years of age) with incomplete/uncertain vaccination status and for routine vaccines to inform development of interventions to improve vaccine uptake and coverage.

Design

Qualitative interview study with purposive sampling and thematic analysis.

Setting

UK primary care.

Participants

64 primary care professionals (PCPs): 48 clinical-staff including general practitioners, practice nurses and healthcare assistants; 16 administrative-staff including practice managers and receptionists (mean age 45 years; 84.4% women; a range of ethnicities).

Results

Participants highlighted direct and indirect barriers to catch-up

SUBMITTER: Carter J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9557795 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature