Parental Perceptions about Required Influenza Immunization of Pediatric Healthcare Personnel

Linam, W. Matthew; Gilliam, Craig; Honeycutt, Michele; Wisdom, Christy; Swearingen, Christopher J.; Romero, José R.

doi:10.1086/678061

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“…A study focused on interviewing parents and guardians of children hospitalized at Arkansas Children's Hospital, USA: 76% of the 372 respondents thought that HCWs should receive an annual influenza vaccination and that it should be mandatory. (Linam et al, 2014) The results are in line with the ones that emerged when assessing parents 'attitude towards mandatory vaccinations. In fact, a previous review outlined how the parents' support to this kind of policy ranged from 53% to 97% for different vaccination programs.…”

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Healthcare Workers’ (HCWs) attitudes towards mandatory influenza vaccination: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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et al. 2021

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Influenza is a disease responsible for thousands of deaths every year. Although healthcare workers (HCWs) represent a way of contagion for patients, vaccination coverage among them is low. Mandatory vaccination has been proposed, but controversies remain. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the acceptance of mandatory vaccination by HCWs, and to investigate associated characteristics. MEDLINE, Scopus, Embase, PsycInfo, CINAHL and Web of Science were used to search for studies assessing the topic. PRISMA statements were followed. Of the 13457 univocal records found, 52 studies were included in the systematic review and 40 in the meta-analysis. The pooled proportion of HCWs accepting the policy was of 61% (95% CI: 53%-68%) but with great heterogeneity between continents (from 54% in Europe to 69% in Asia) and in different professionals (from 40% in nurses to 80% in students). Vaccinated HCWs agreed more frequently with mandatory vaccination than non-vaccinated ones. More studies that consider mandatory vaccination acceptance as the main outcome are needed, but the results of this study confirm that physicians and HCWs vaccinated against flu favour mandatory vaccination. This, combined with effects that a flu epidemic could have if overlapped to pandemics with similar symptoms, requires renewed considerations on mandatory vaccination.

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confidence: 80%

Healthcare Workers’ (HCWs) attitudes towards mandatory influenza vaccination: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Gualano

Corradi

Voglino

et al. 2021

Vaccine

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“…To the Editor— We would like to discuss the article “Parental Perceptions about Required Influenza Immunization.” 1 Linam et al noted that “independent of their feelings regarding vaccine safety and efficacy, 76% of parents felt that annual influenza vaccination should be required for HCP [healthcare professionals].” 1 In fact, parents of pediatric patients usually require the best thing, best safety service, for their children. A vaccinated HCP is perceived to be a safe person to provide health care to the children with low risk for influenza transmission.…”

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