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Attitudes of Community Pharmacy Service Users towards Vaccination Programs in Pharmacy: A Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Study in Croatia

Background: The aim of this study was to explore community pharmacy service users’ attitudes and opinions towards vaccination programs in pharmacy conducted by a doctor of medicine or a pharmacist. Methods: The questionnaire used in this study comprised 40 items about demographics, sources of inform...

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Autores principales: Rusic, Doris, Nanasi, Doris, Bozic, Josko, Jurcev Savicevic, Anamarija, Leskur, Dario, Seselja Perisin, Ana, Modun, Darko, Vilovic, Marino, Bukic, Josipa
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9788268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36548323
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy10060167
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author Rusic, Doris
Nanasi, Doris
Bozic, Josko
Jurcev Savicevic, Anamarija
Leskur, Dario
Seselja Perisin, Ana
Modun, Darko
Vilovic, Marino
Bukic, Josipa
author_facet Rusic, Doris
Nanasi, Doris
Bozic, Josko
Jurcev Savicevic, Anamarija
Leskur, Dario
Seselja Perisin, Ana
Modun, Darko
Vilovic, Marino
Bukic, Josipa
author_sort Rusic, Doris
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description Background: The aim of this study was to explore community pharmacy service users’ attitudes and opinions towards vaccination programs in pharmacy conducted by a doctor of medicine or a pharmacist. Methods: The questionnaire used in this study comprised 40 items about demographics, sources of information, attitudes about vaccination, attitudes about vaccination in community pharmacies, and willingness to pay for such a service. Results: A total of 385 people participated in this study. Injection was the preferred route of administration of vaccine for more than half of study participants (50.6%). Univariate analysis showed that those who had a healthcare worker as a family member and those familiar with the HPV vaccine had better attitudes; however, those results were no longer significant after factoring in other variables in multivariate analysis. More than half (59.2%) of the study population would consider vaccination service in community pharmacies only if it were free or covered by the national health insurance. Conclusions: More than half of the participants believed that providing vaccination services in community pharmacies would result in greater vaccination rates for seasonal illnesses. However, around half would prefer that it were conducted exclusively by a physician. Less than 10% of the study participants would pay out of their pocket for such a service.
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spelling pubmed-97882682022-12-24 Attitudes of Community Pharmacy Service Users towards Vaccination Programs in Pharmacy: A Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Study in Croatia Rusic, Doris Nanasi, Doris Bozic, Josko Jurcev Savicevic, Anamarija Leskur, Dario Seselja Perisin, Ana Modun, Darko Vilovic, Marino Bukic, Josipa Pharmacy (Basel) Article Background: The aim of this study was to explore community pharmacy service users’ attitudes and opinions towards vaccination programs in pharmacy conducted by a doctor of medicine or a pharmacist. Methods: The questionnaire used in this study comprised 40 items about demographics, sources of information, attitudes about vaccination, attitudes about vaccination in community pharmacies, and willingness to pay for such a service. Results: A total of 385 people participated in this study. Injection was the preferred route of administration of vaccine for more than half of study participants (50.6%). Univariate analysis showed that those who had a healthcare worker as a family member and those familiar with the HPV vaccine had better attitudes; however, those results were no longer significant after factoring in other variables in multivariate analysis. More than half (59.2%) of the study population would consider vaccination service in community pharmacies only if it were free or covered by the national health insurance. Conclusions: More than half of the participants believed that providing vaccination services in community pharmacies would result in greater vaccination rates for seasonal illnesses. However, around half would prefer that it were conducted exclusively by a physician. Less than 10% of the study participants would pay out of their pocket for such a service. MDPI 2022-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9788268/ /pubmed/36548323 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy10060167 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rusic, Doris
Nanasi, Doris
Bozic, Josko
Jurcev Savicevic, Anamarija
Leskur, Dario
Seselja Perisin, Ana
Modun, Darko
Vilovic, Marino
Bukic, Josipa
Attitudes of Community Pharmacy Service Users towards Vaccination Programs in Pharmacy: A Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Study in Croatia
title Attitudes of Community Pharmacy Service Users towards Vaccination Programs in Pharmacy: A Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Study in Croatia
title_full Attitudes of Community Pharmacy Service Users towards Vaccination Programs in Pharmacy: A Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Study in Croatia
title_fullStr Attitudes of Community Pharmacy Service Users towards Vaccination Programs in Pharmacy: A Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Study in Croatia
title_full_unstemmed Attitudes of Community Pharmacy Service Users towards Vaccination Programs in Pharmacy: A Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Study in Croatia
title_short Attitudes of Community Pharmacy Service Users towards Vaccination Programs in Pharmacy: A Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Study in Croatia
title_sort attitudes of community pharmacy service users towards vaccination programs in pharmacy: a cross-sectional survey-based study in croatia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9788268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36548323
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy10060167
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