Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Scand J Public Health. 2012 Feb;40(1):69-75. doi: 10.1177/1403494811424612. Epub 2011 Oct 17.
To study differences between public health physicians' and general population's knowledge, attitude, and behaviours towards an influenza pandemic.
During winter 2009, an anonymous questionnaire online (www.ijph.it) of 34 questions was available for participants, structured into three parts: socio-demographic information, people's knowledge, and behaviours about influenza H1N1.
836 persons were interviewed (335 physicians and 501 not physicians). Of these, 50.8% of physicians and 78.1% of not physicians were aged less than 50 years and 57.6% of physicians and 31.7% of not physicians were male. Physicians were more interested to be updated about the pandemic (90.6% versus 88.4% of not physicians; p = 0.003); not physicians were more inclined to avoid crowded places (29.7% versus 17.6% of physicians; p < 0.001); and physicians were more prone to get vaccinated (56.4% versus 23.6% of not physicians; p < 0.001). Broadly, physicians had a better ability to deal the pandemic, both for knowledge and behaviours. Particularly, a significant difference (p < 0.001) was found concerning the principle source of information on the pandemic, for physicians being the internet (41.5%), followed by the health facilities' internal communication (33.1%), while for not physicians being watching the national television news (34.1%) and surfing the internet (30.9%).
During the spread of the pandemic flu, a lot of information was propagated chaotically. The information given were not always truthful and often they were interpreted incorrectly or sometimes only partially understood by the population, and this needs to be taken into account for future successful communication in cases of emergency.
研究公共卫生医生和一般人群对流感大流行的知识、态度和行为差异。
在 2009 年冬季，参与者可在线（www.ijph.it）匿名填写一份 34 个问题的问卷，问卷分为三部分：社会人口统计学信息、人们对流感 H1N1 的知识和行为。
共采访了 836 人（335 名医生和 501 名非医生）。其中，50.8%的医生和 78.1%的非医生年龄小于 50 岁，57.6%的医生和 31.7%的非医生为男性。医生更有兴趣了解大流行的最新情况（90.6%比 88.4%的非医生；p=0.003）；非医生更倾向于避免拥挤的地方（29.7%比 17.6%的医生；p<0.001）；医生更倾向于接种疫苗（56.4%比 23.6%的非医生；p<0.001）。总的来说，医生在处理大流行方面的知识和行为都更好。特别是，在获取大流行信息的主要来源方面，医生发现存在显著差异（p<0.001），医生主要来源是互联网（41.5%），其次是卫生机构内部沟通（33.1%），而非医生主要来源是国家电视新闻（34.1%）和互联网（30.9%）。
在流感大流行期间，大量信息混乱传播。提供的信息并不总是真实的，而且经常被错误解释，或者有时只是部分被公众理解，这需要在未来的紧急情况下成功沟通时考虑到这一点。
