Compliance with herpes zoster vaccination in young and adult individuals in two regions of Italy

BMC Public Health

Research Article

Vincenzo Romano Spica¹  Francesca Farchi²  Massimo Ciccozzi²  Elisabetta Franco³  Valeria Di Onofrio⁴  Giorgio Liguori⁴  Francesca Gallè⁴  Antonino Parlato⁵ 

[1] Department of Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Piazza Lauro de Bosis 3, 00135, Rome, Italy;Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy;Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Via di Tor Vergata 135, 00173, Rome, Italy;Department of Studies of Institutions and Territorial Systems, University of Naples "Parthenope", Via Medina 40, 80133, Naples, Italy;Epidemiology and Prevention Departmental Area, Local Health Agency NA2, Via Corrado Alvaro 8, 80074, Pozzuoli (Naples), Italy;

关键词: Herpes Zoster;    Varicella Zoster Virus;    Chickenpox;    Varicella Vaccine;    Varicella Zoster Virus Infection;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-10-333

 received in 2009-07-29, accepted in 2010-06-12,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe purpose of this work was to explore the knowledge and acceptance of Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV)-Herpes Zoster (HZ) vaccination in the general Italian population, where the HZ vaccine has not yet been distributed, using a prevalence study of subjects from two regions in Italy.MethodsA group of 3,173 individuals were interviewed using a questionnaire. The youngest age group (≤ 20 year) was composed of students interviewed at university. The middle age group (21-40 years) and the older age group (≥ 41 years) were interviewed by general practitioners in their office.ResultsIn both regions, the majority of subjects had been infected with varicella, and only 165 (5.2%) subjects reported receiving the VZV vaccination. Regarding HZ, 2,749 (86.6%) individuals stated that they knew of the virus and 2,233 (70%) were willing to be vaccinated against HZ. The majority of people willing to be vaccinated were in the middle and older age groups (36.6% and 44.7%, respectively).ConclusionCompliance versus vaccination results were satisfactory and probably, with the upcoming availability of the HZ vaccine in Italy, adults will be favourably disposed towards vaccination.

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© Parlato et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.