Koul Parvaiz A, Ali Saima, Mir Hyder, Ahmad Syed J, Bhat Shabir Akram, Bhat Muneer A
Department of Internal & Pulmonary Medicine, Sher I Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India. Electronic address: http://www.skims.ac.in.
Department of Internal & Pulmonary Medicine, Sher I Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India.
Indian Heart J. 2017 Jan-Feb;69(1):28-31. doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2016.07.012. Epub 2016 Jul 30.
No data exists regarding the uptake of influenza vaccination in patients with heart failure (HF) in India. The present study was designed to assess the uptake, knowledge, attitude and practices of the Indian HF patients towards influenza vaccination.
Five-hundred patients with acute/chronic HF were approached for a personal interview and responses to an interview recorded in a pre-defined questionnaire depicting their knowledge, attitudes and practice regarding influenza vaccination. Of the 500 approached, 320 (64%, 174 male, age 3-90 years) consented to participate in the survey. Only 7.5% (n=24) knew of influenza as an illness with adverse potential consequences for themselves or their family. Seventeen (5.3%) were aware of potentially serious nature of influenza and 40 (12.5%) knew of the availability of a vaccine against it and its local availability. However only 14 (4.4%) had actually received the vaccine 1-2 times in the past 5 years. Only 21 (6.56%) had been prescribed influenza vaccine by their respective physicians. Reasons for declining vaccination included misperceptions about safety and efficacy of the vaccine. Most of the participants, however, had not been prescribed vaccination at all.
Poor influenza vaccination rates in HF mandate intense efforts to improve vaccination rates.
在印度，尚无关于心力衰竭（HF）患者流感疫苗接种情况的数据。本研究旨在评估印度HF患者对流感疫苗接种的接受情况、知识水平、态度和行为。
对500例急性/慢性HF患者进行了个人访谈，并将对访谈的回答记录在一份预先定义的问卷中，该问卷描述了他们对流感疫苗接种的知识、态度和行为。在被邀请的500例患者中，320例（64%，男性174例，年龄3 - 90岁）同意参与调查。只有7.5%（n = 24）知道流感是一种可能对自己或家人产生不良后果的疾病。17例（5.3%）意识到流感可能具有严重性质，40例（12.5%）知道有针对流感的疫苗及其在当地的可获得性。然而，在过去5年中，只有14例（4.4%）实际接种过1 - 2次疫苗。只有21例（6.56%）被各自的医生开了流感疫苗。拒绝接种的原因包括对疫苗安全性和有效性的误解。然而，大多数参与者根本没有被医生开疫苗处方。
HF患者流感疫苗接种率低，需要大力努力提高接种率。
