Promotion of flu vaccination among healthcare workers in an Italian academic hospital: An experience with tailored web tools

Conte, Alessandro; Quattrin, Rosanna; Filiputti, Elisa; Cocconi, R; Arnoldo, Luca; Tricarico, P; Delendi, Mauro; Brusaferro, Silvio

doi:10.1080/21645515.2016.1186319

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“…However, to date no standardised, global metric exists to measure vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers. Few studies (4%) involved the evaluation of interventions, vaccine education or other initiatives (Conte et al, 2016; Gilardi et al, 2018; Llupià et al, 2010). Similarly, qualitative studies were poorly represented with only 4% meeting inclusion criteria (Adedokun, 2018; Edge et al, 2017; Sundaram et al, 2018).…”

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Determinants of seasonal influenza vaccination hesitancy among healthcare personnel: An integrative review

Hall

Northam

Webster

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Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives:To explore the determinants of and behaviour change models for seasonal influenza vaccination compliance among healthcare personnel.Background: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among healthcare personnel may be better understood by exploring determinants of seasonal influenza vaccine hesitancy. Design: Integrative literature review.Methods: A systematic search was conducted in accordance with PRISMA guidelines.Six thousand and forty-eight articles were screened. Seventy-eight met inclusion criteria. Due to the heterogeneity of included articles, a narrative synthesis was conducted utilising a conceptual matrix to identify thematic categories.Results: Six thematic categories were identified as influencing HCP SIV compliance: 'perceived vulnerability', 'trust', 'past behaviour', 'professional duty', 'access and convenience' and 'knowledge and experience'. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was the most commonly utilised health behaviour change model within the seasonal influenza vaccination context. Few studies have examined seasonal influenza vaccine acceptance and uptake within the Australian HCP context, particularly involving community care and aged care. Conclusions: Factors that appear to relate to influenza vaccination compliance amongHCP can be grouped according to several thematic categories, and they also appear influential in COVID-19 vaccine uptake. In particular, an emerging focus on 'trust' or the more emotive considerations of decision-making around health-protective behaviours requires further exploration in the context of a pandemic. Efforts to influence these domains to increase compliance, however, are likely to be impeded by a lack of a well-developed and tested behaviour change model.Relevance to clinical practice: Healthcare personnel (HCP) face high levels of occupational exposure to seasonal influenza every year. An emerging focus on 'trust' and the more emotive considerations of decision-making around health-protective behaviours requires further exploration in the context of a pandemic.

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“…Cross-sectional studies were significantly over-represented. (Conte et al, 2016;Gilardi et al, 2018;Llupià et al, 2010). Similarly, qualitative studies were poorly represented with only 4% meeting inclusion criteria (Adedokun, 2018;Edge et al, 2017;Sundaram et al, 2018).…”

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Determinants of seasonal influenza vaccination hesitancy among healthcare personnel: An integrative review

Hall

Northam

Webster

et al. 2021

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…Flu vaccine uptake among the population, moreover, seems to be influenced by regional vaccination strategies [14]. Flu vaccination multimedia promotion campaigns (letters in pay slip and posters) are effective in increasing the number of vaccinated HCWs (7.6% vs. 5.6%, p < 0.005) and their intention to get vaccinated in the future (13.1% vs. 36.6% p < 0.005) [30]. The use of different strategies, including lectures, intranet, and posters may be useful to improve the adherence of HCWs to flu vaccination.…”

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Attitudes of Healthcare Workers toward Influenza Vaccination in the COVID-19 Era

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Healthcare workers (HCWs) are reluctant to participate in the influenza vaccination program, despite their high risk to contract and diffuse influenza due to professional exposure. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic could raise HCW flu vaccination adherence. The aim of this study was to assess HCW attitudes toward influenza vaccination in the COVID-19 era. A multicenter observational study was carried out in three Italian hospitals (two in Pesaro and one in Fano, Marche region, Italy). Data about HCW influenza vaccination between 2013 and 2021 were extracted from the vaccination registers. An online questionnaire was sent to HCWs from July to October 2020 to assess their opinion about influenza vaccination in terms of knowledge, attitude, and practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of flu-vaccinated HCWs increased from 3.7% in the 2013–2014 flu season to 53.6% in the 2020–2021 flu season (p < 0.001). About 15% (n = 324) of HCWs responded to the online questionnaire, and 30.5% of them declared that they had changed their minds on flu vaccination after the COVID-19 pandemic, deciding to get vaccinated. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased HCWs’ attitudes toward flu vaccination. However, flu vaccination adherence remained low and should be improved.

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“…The other topic within this theme talked about the ongoing research on the study and production of flu vaccines. • Promotion of the flu vaccine: The flu vaccine is promoted every year and studies on the effective promotion of these vaccines have become quite important [31]. The third theme, "Promotion of the flu vaccine" contained tweets which talked about the availability of the vaccine at healthcare centres like "GP surgery" and asked people to protect their families through vaccination.…”

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Leveraging Natural Language Processing to Understand Public Outlook Towards the Influenza Vaccination

Romine¹,

Banerjee²

2021

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<div>Understanding public outlook in healthcare management is important in the study of the various diseases. With respect to vaccinations, which play a major role in combating vaccine-preventable diseases, the study on their acceptance or rejection by the public becomes useful. In particular to the</div><div>influenza vaccine, studies on the public opinion and views is ongoing. Social media platforms like Twitter help us to leverage thoughts and attitudes related to the flu vaccine. The data set used for our analysis contained tweets related to vaccines which were collected using vaccine-related keywords over a period of twelve months from February, 2018 to January, 2019. Out of these tweets, we filtered out the tweets specific to the flu vaccine and generated our corpus for further study. By using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), we identified eighteen topics comprising six major themes which best represented our corpus. In this paper, we discuss these six themes and subsequently analyze the trend observed in these themes over a period of twelve months. The themes identified covered various aspects related to the flu vaccine. Among the six major themes, four showed a distinctive temporal trend with respect to the annual flu season.</div><div><br></div>

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Promotion of flu vaccination among healthcare workers in an Italian academic hospital: An experience with tailored web tools

Abstract: The multimedia campaign succeeded with regard to KAP outcomes, but the vaccination rate is still far from the goal of 90%. Due to their impact, especially on younger age groups, web tools deserve to be better studied as effective approach to convey health information among HCWs.

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Determinants of seasonal influenza vaccination hesitancy among healthcare personnel: An integrative review

Determinants of seasonal influenza vaccination hesitancy among healthcare personnel: An integrative review

Attitudes of Healthcare Workers toward Influenza Vaccination in the COVID-19 Era

Leveraging Natural Language Processing to Understand Public Outlook Towards the Influenza Vaccination

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