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Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about vaccination in primary healthcare workers involved in the administration of systematic childhood vaccines, Barcelona, 2016/17

BACKGROUND: Healthcare professionals are a reliable and impactful source of information on vaccination for parents and children. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to describe the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs primary care professionals involved in administration of childhood vaccines in Barcelona have about v...

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Autores principales: Picchio, Camila Andrea, Carrasco, Mireia Garcia, Sagué-Vilavella, Maria, Rius, Cristina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6373069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30755298
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.6.1800117
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author Picchio, Camila Andrea
Carrasco, Mireia Garcia
Sagué-Vilavella, Maria
Rius, Cristina
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Sagué-Vilavella, Maria
Rius, Cristina
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description BACKGROUND: Healthcare professionals are a reliable and impactful source of information on vaccination for parents and children. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to describe the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs primary care professionals involved in administration of childhood vaccines in Barcelona have about vaccines and vaccination. METHODS: In 2016/17, surveys were administered in person to every public primary care centre (PCC) with a paediatrics department (n = 41). Paediatricians and paediatric nurses responded to questions about disease susceptibility, severity, vaccine effectiveness, vaccine safety, confidence in organisations, key immunisation beliefs, and how they vaccinate or would vaccinate their own children. We used standard descriptive analysis to examine the distribution of key outcome and predictor variables and performed bivariate and multivariate analysis. RESULTS: Completed surveys were returned by 277 (81%) of 342 eligible participants. A quarter of the respondents reported doubts about at least one vaccine in the recommended childhood vaccination calendar. Those with vaccine doubts chose the response option ‘vaccine-hesitant’ for every single key vaccine belief, knowledge and social norm. Specific vaccine knowledge was lacking in up to 40% of respondents and responses regarding the human papilloma virus vaccine were associated with the highest degree of doubt. Being a nurse a risk factor for having vaccine doubts (adjusted odds ratio (ORa) = 2.0; 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 1.1–3.7) and having children was a predictor of lower risk (ORa = 0.5; 95% CI: 0.2–0.9). CONCLUSIONS: Despite high reported childhood immunisation rates in Barcelona, paediatricians and paediatric nurses in PCC had vaccine doubts, especially regarding the HPV vaccine.
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spelling pubmed-63730692019-03-06 Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about vaccination in primary healthcare workers involved in the administration of systematic childhood vaccines, Barcelona, 2016/17 Picchio, Camila Andrea Carrasco, Mireia Garcia Sagué-Vilavella, Maria Rius, Cristina Euro Surveill Research BACKGROUND: Healthcare professionals are a reliable and impactful source of information on vaccination for parents and children. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to describe the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs primary care professionals involved in administration of childhood vaccines in Barcelona have about vaccines and vaccination. METHODS: In 2016/17, surveys were administered in person to every public primary care centre (PCC) with a paediatrics department (n = 41). Paediatricians and paediatric nurses responded to questions about disease susceptibility, severity, vaccine effectiveness, vaccine safety, confidence in organisations, key immunisation beliefs, and how they vaccinate or would vaccinate their own children. We used standard descriptive analysis to examine the distribution of key outcome and predictor variables and performed bivariate and multivariate analysis. RESULTS: Completed surveys were returned by 277 (81%) of 342 eligible participants. A quarter of the respondents reported doubts about at least one vaccine in the recommended childhood vaccination calendar. Those with vaccine doubts chose the response option ‘vaccine-hesitant’ for every single key vaccine belief, knowledge and social norm. Specific vaccine knowledge was lacking in up to 40% of respondents and responses regarding the human papilloma virus vaccine were associated with the highest degree of doubt. Being a nurse a risk factor for having vaccine doubts (adjusted odds ratio (ORa) = 2.0; 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 1.1–3.7) and having children was a predictor of lower risk (ORa = 0.5; 95% CI: 0.2–0.9). CONCLUSIONS: Despite high reported childhood immunisation rates in Barcelona, paediatricians and paediatric nurses in PCC had vaccine doubts, especially regarding the HPV vaccine. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6373069/ /pubmed/30755298 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.6.1800117 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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Picchio, Camila Andrea
Carrasco, Mireia Garcia
Sagué-Vilavella, Maria
Rius, Cristina
Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about vaccination in primary healthcare workers involved in the administration of systematic childhood vaccines, Barcelona, 2016/17
title Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about vaccination in primary healthcare workers involved in the administration of systematic childhood vaccines, Barcelona, 2016/17
title_full Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about vaccination in primary healthcare workers involved in the administration of systematic childhood vaccines, Barcelona, 2016/17
title_fullStr Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about vaccination in primary healthcare workers involved in the administration of systematic childhood vaccines, Barcelona, 2016/17
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about vaccination in primary healthcare workers involved in the administration of systematic childhood vaccines, Barcelona, 2016/17
title_short Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about vaccination in primary healthcare workers involved in the administration of systematic childhood vaccines, Barcelona, 2016/17
title_sort knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about vaccination in primary healthcare workers involved in the administration of systematic childhood vaccines, barcelona, 2016/17
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6373069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30755298
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.6.1800117
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