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Gender, Socioeconomic, and Health Characteristics Associated with Influenza Vaccination Coverage (VC) among Italian Healthcare Workers: Secondary Analysis of a National Cross-Sectional Survey

Influenza epidemics pose a great overload over health-care facilities with an increase in the burden of disease for patients and healthcare costs. Despite a well-established amount of research in the area, vaccination rates show room for improvement and more research is needed in finding systematic...

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Autores principales: Barbadoro, Pamela, Brighenti, Aura, Acquaviva, Giorgia, Catalini, Alessandro, Diotallevi, Francesca, Masiero, Alberto Lino, Montagna, Vincenzo, D’Errico, Marcello Mario
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7551854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32858784
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030298
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author Barbadoro, Pamela
Brighenti, Aura
Acquaviva, Giorgia
Catalini, Alessandro
Diotallevi, Francesca
Masiero, Alberto Lino
Montagna, Vincenzo
D’Errico, Marcello Mario
author_facet Barbadoro, Pamela
Brighenti, Aura
Acquaviva, Giorgia
Catalini, Alessandro
Diotallevi, Francesca
Masiero, Alberto Lino
Montagna, Vincenzo
D’Errico, Marcello Mario
author_sort Barbadoro, Pamela
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description Influenza epidemics pose a great overload over health-care facilities with an increase in the burden of disease for patients and healthcare costs. Despite a well-established amount of research in the area, vaccination rates show room for improvement and more research is needed in finding systematic interventions useful in improving healthcare workers (HCWs) vaccination coverage (VC). The purpose of this study was to describe the self-reported frequency of influenza immunization in HCWs and to identify demographic, socioeconomic, lifestyle, and health factors associated with this practice in Italy. Data about 5823 workers participating in the Italian national survey about health and healthcare services utilization are analyzed in the present study. Overall, 18.8% of HCWs reported being vaccinated against seasonal flu. In the multilevel regression, older workers had a higher likelihood of vaccine uptake (OR: 6.07; 95% CI 4.72–7.79), similar to those with chronic conditions or poor self-perceived health status (OR: 2.18 95% CI 1.17–4.09). On the other hand, the results highlighted a lower rate of VC in female HCWs (OR: 0.73 95% CI 0.61–0.86). Data confirm the low compliance towards flu immunization among Italian HCWs and highlight an important gap to be investigated in women.
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spelling pubmed-75518542020-10-14 Gender, Socioeconomic, and Health Characteristics Associated with Influenza Vaccination Coverage (VC) among Italian Healthcare Workers: Secondary Analysis of a National Cross-Sectional Survey Barbadoro, Pamela Brighenti, Aura Acquaviva, Giorgia Catalini, Alessandro Diotallevi, Francesca Masiero, Alberto Lino Montagna, Vincenzo D’Errico, Marcello Mario Healthcare (Basel) Article Influenza epidemics pose a great overload over health-care facilities with an increase in the burden of disease for patients and healthcare costs. Despite a well-established amount of research in the area, vaccination rates show room for improvement and more research is needed in finding systematic interventions useful in improving healthcare workers (HCWs) vaccination coverage (VC). The purpose of this study was to describe the self-reported frequency of influenza immunization in HCWs and to identify demographic, socioeconomic, lifestyle, and health factors associated with this practice in Italy. Data about 5823 workers participating in the Italian national survey about health and healthcare services utilization are analyzed in the present study. Overall, 18.8% of HCWs reported being vaccinated against seasonal flu. In the multilevel regression, older workers had a higher likelihood of vaccine uptake (OR: 6.07; 95% CI 4.72–7.79), similar to those with chronic conditions or poor self-perceived health status (OR: 2.18 95% CI 1.17–4.09). On the other hand, the results highlighted a lower rate of VC in female HCWs (OR: 0.73 95% CI 0.61–0.86). Data confirm the low compliance towards flu immunization among Italian HCWs and highlight an important gap to be investigated in women. MDPI 2020-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7551854/ /pubmed/32858784 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030298 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Barbadoro, Pamela
Brighenti, Aura
Acquaviva, Giorgia
Catalini, Alessandro
Diotallevi, Francesca
Masiero, Alberto Lino
Montagna, Vincenzo
D’Errico, Marcello Mario
Gender, Socioeconomic, and Health Characteristics Associated with Influenza Vaccination Coverage (VC) among Italian Healthcare Workers: Secondary Analysis of a National Cross-Sectional Survey
title Gender, Socioeconomic, and Health Characteristics Associated with Influenza Vaccination Coverage (VC) among Italian Healthcare Workers: Secondary Analysis of a National Cross-Sectional Survey
title_full Gender, Socioeconomic, and Health Characteristics Associated with Influenza Vaccination Coverage (VC) among Italian Healthcare Workers: Secondary Analysis of a National Cross-Sectional Survey
title_fullStr Gender, Socioeconomic, and Health Characteristics Associated with Influenza Vaccination Coverage (VC) among Italian Healthcare Workers: Secondary Analysis of a National Cross-Sectional Survey
title_full_unstemmed Gender, Socioeconomic, and Health Characteristics Associated with Influenza Vaccination Coverage (VC) among Italian Healthcare Workers: Secondary Analysis of a National Cross-Sectional Survey
title_short Gender, Socioeconomic, and Health Characteristics Associated with Influenza Vaccination Coverage (VC) among Italian Healthcare Workers: Secondary Analysis of a National Cross-Sectional Survey
title_sort gender, socioeconomic, and health characteristics associated with influenza vaccination coverage (vc) among italian healthcare workers: secondary analysis of a national cross-sectional survey
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7551854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32858784
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030298
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