Journal article
Attitudes of Internal Medicine Residents regarding Influenza Vaccination
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.15(1), pp.32-35
01/1994
DOI: 10.1086/646815
PMID: 8133007
Abstract
Objective: To survey the attitudes of internal medicine residents regarding the influenza vaccine and their reasons for accepting or refusing the vaccine during a hospitalwide immunization campaign.
Design and participants: Internal medicine residents responded to a written survey.
Setting: A university-owned, 891-bed, tertiary referral hospital and a 278-bed Veterans Administration hospital in Iowa.
Results: Immediately following the immunization campaign, 51% of residents had received the vaccine. Of those residents who were not vaccinated, 42% never had time to go to the vaccine clinic, but only 8% worried about side effects of the vaccine. Residents whose clinics were staffed by infectious disease subspecialists were significantly more likely to be vaccinated (odds ratio = 2.55; CI95 = 1.01 to 6.42) than residents working with general internists or other subspecialists.
Conclusions: Knowledge, vaccine availability, and social pressure all increase the likelihood that residents will be vaccinated. Faculty, particularly those interested in infectious diseases, may influence residents to accept the vaccine.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Attitudes of Internal Medicine Residents regarding Influenza Vaccination
- Creators
- Daniel A NafzigerLoreen A Herwaldt
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.15(1), pp.32-35
- DOI
- 10.1086/646815
- PMID
- 8133007
- ISSN
- 0899-823X
- eISSN
- 1559-6834
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/1994
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094762402771
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