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Factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel: a cross-sectional evaluation
BACKGROUND: Vaccinating children against influenza has shown both direct and indirect beneficial effects. However, despite being offered free of charge, childhood influenza vaccine coverage in Israel has been low. Our objective was to evaluate the factors associated with childhood influenza vaccinat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6878635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31771629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-019-0349-x |
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author | Glatman-Freedman, Aharona Amir, Kanar Dichtiar, Rita Zadka, Hila Vainer, Ifat Karolinsky, Dolev Enav, Teena Shohat, Tamy |
author_facet | Glatman-Freedman, Aharona Amir, Kanar Dichtiar, Rita Zadka, Hila Vainer, Ifat Karolinsky, Dolev Enav, Teena Shohat, Tamy |
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description | BACKGROUND: Vaccinating children against influenza has shown both direct and indirect beneficial effects. However, despite being offered free of charge, childhood influenza vaccine coverage in Israel has been low. Our objective was to evaluate the factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel. METHODS: A cross-sectional language-specific telephone survey was conducted among adults 18 years or older, to examine childhood influenza vaccination practices and their associations with socio-demographic and relevant health variables. We further explored the reasons for these practices among parents. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with childhood influenza vaccine acceptance. RESULTS: Of a total of 6518 individuals contacted by mobile phone, 1165 eligible parents, ≥18 years old with children 1–18 years of age, were interviewed, and 1040 of them completed the survey successfully. Overall, factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination were younger child’s age, influenza vaccination of other family members and belonging to the Arab population group. No association was found between childhood influenza vaccination and routine childhood vaccine uptake. Several of the parents’ reasons for vaccine acceptance - preventing influenza or its transmission, awareness regarding the need for influenza vaccination and receipt of invitation to get vaccinated - differed significantly between Jewish and Arab parents. Several reasons reported by parents for not vaccinating children against influenza, indicated a likelihood to accept influenza vaccine outreach efforts. Such reasons were reported by 27.5% of Jewish parents and 37.5% of Arab parents. CONCLUSIONS: We found that certain demographic factors were associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel. Several reasons described by the parent for not vaccinating their children indicate that outreach efforts are likely to increase childhood influenza vaccination. Addressing population group-specific needs is recommended to optimize the success of influenza vaccine outreach efforts. |
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spelling | pubmed-68786352019-11-29 Factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel: a cross-sectional evaluation Glatman-Freedman, Aharona Amir, Kanar Dichtiar, Rita Zadka, Hila Vainer, Ifat Karolinsky, Dolev Enav, Teena Shohat, Tamy Isr J Health Policy Res Original Research Article BACKGROUND: Vaccinating children against influenza has shown both direct and indirect beneficial effects. However, despite being offered free of charge, childhood influenza vaccine coverage in Israel has been low. Our objective was to evaluate the factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel. METHODS: A cross-sectional language-specific telephone survey was conducted among adults 18 years or older, to examine childhood influenza vaccination practices and their associations with socio-demographic and relevant health variables. We further explored the reasons for these practices among parents. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with childhood influenza vaccine acceptance. RESULTS: Of a total of 6518 individuals contacted by mobile phone, 1165 eligible parents, ≥18 years old with children 1–18 years of age, were interviewed, and 1040 of them completed the survey successfully. Overall, factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination were younger child’s age, influenza vaccination of other family members and belonging to the Arab population group. No association was found between childhood influenza vaccination and routine childhood vaccine uptake. Several of the parents’ reasons for vaccine acceptance - preventing influenza or its transmission, awareness regarding the need for influenza vaccination and receipt of invitation to get vaccinated - differed significantly between Jewish and Arab parents. Several reasons reported by parents for not vaccinating children against influenza, indicated a likelihood to accept influenza vaccine outreach efforts. Such reasons were reported by 27.5% of Jewish parents and 37.5% of Arab parents. CONCLUSIONS: We found that certain demographic factors were associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel. Several reasons described by the parent for not vaccinating their children indicate that outreach efforts are likely to increase childhood influenza vaccination. Addressing population group-specific needs is recommended to optimize the success of influenza vaccine outreach efforts. BioMed Central 2019-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6878635/ /pubmed/31771629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-019-0349-x Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Article Glatman-Freedman, Aharona Amir, Kanar Dichtiar, Rita Zadka, Hila Vainer, Ifat Karolinsky, Dolev Enav, Teena Shohat, Tamy Factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel: a cross-sectional evaluation |
title | Factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel: a cross-sectional evaluation |
title_full | Factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel: a cross-sectional evaluation |
title_fullStr | Factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel: a cross-sectional evaluation |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel: a cross-sectional evaluation |
title_short | Factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel: a cross-sectional evaluation |
title_sort | factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in israel: a cross-sectional evaluation |
topic | Original Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6878635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31771629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-019-0349-x |
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