Contributing factors to influenza vaccine uptake in general hospitals: an explorative management questionnaire study from the Netherlands

BMC Public Health

Eelko Hak²  Maarten J Postma¹  Willem Luytjes³  Arjen R Procé¹  Joep CF Kuiphuis¹  Josien Riphagen-Dalhuisen² 

[1] Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, P.O. Box XB45, 9713 AV, Groningen, the Netherlands;Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands;Dutch Vaccine Institute (NVI)/National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

关键词: Management;    General hospital;    Influenza vaccination;    Health care workers;   

Others  :  1162707
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-12-1101

 received in 2012-06-04, accepted in 2012-12-12,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

The influenza vaccination rate in hospitals among health care workers in Europe remains low. As there is a lack of research about management factors we assessed factors reported by administrators of general hospitals that are associated with the influenza vaccine uptake among health care workers.

Methods

All 81 general hospitals in the Netherlands were approached to participate in a self-administered questionnaire study. The questionnaire was directed at the hospital administrators. The following factors were addressed: beliefs about the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine, whether the hospital had a written policy on influenza vaccination and how the hospital informed their staff about influenza vaccination. The questionnaire also included questions about mandatory vaccination, whether it was free of charge and how delivered as well as the vaccination campaign costs. The outcome of this one-season survey is the self-reported overall influenza vaccination rate of health care workers.

Results

In all, 79 of 81 hospitals that were approached were willing to participate and therefore received a questionnaire. Of these, 42 were returned (response rate 52%). Overall influenza vaccination rate among health care workers in our sample was 17.7% (95% confidence interval: 14.6% to 20.8%). Hospitals in which the administrators agreed with positive statements concerning the influenza vaccination had a slightly higher, but non-significant, vaccine uptake. There was a 9% higher vaccine uptake in hospitals that spent more than €1250,- on the vaccination campaign (24.0% versus 15.0%; 95% confidence interval from 0.7% to 17.3%).

Conclusions

Agreement with positive statements about management factors with regard to influenza vaccination were not associated with the uptake. More economic investments were related with a higher vaccine uptake; the reasons for this should be explored further.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Riphagen-Dalhuisen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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