Boyabat 75th Year State Hospital, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Sinop, Turkey.
University of Health Sciences Bursa Yuksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital, Department of Family Medicine, Bursa, Turkey.
Vaccine. 2019 Oct 16;37(44):6617-6623. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.09.049. Epub 2019 Sep 18.
Vaccines have been shown to prevent illness, disability and death from vaccine-preventable diseases. The purpose of our study was to analyze the influenza and pneumococcal vaccination status of patients, the factors that influence the uptake of influenza/pneumococcal vaccination and the effects of health literacy (HL) on vaccination.
In this cross-sectional study, demographic characteristics, comorbid diseases and the pneumococcal and influenza vaccination status in previous years were recorded for each patient. The Turkish version of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47) was used to assess HL.
A total of 350 patients were enrolled in the study. A total of 6.3% of patients had received both vaccines. 20% of subjects were vaccinated with influenza vaccine and 11.1% of the subjects were vaccinated with pneumococcal vaccine. Overall HL was insufficient for 70.9%, problematic for 20.6%, sufficient for 7.1% and excellent for 14.2% of patients. Patients who had pneumococcal and influenza vaccination had higher disease prevention HL scores (p = 0.013, p = 0.001; respectively).
An insufficient HL level was found to be much higher than previous studies. It was observed that an increase in disease prevention HL was associated with a rise in the rate of pneumococcal and influenza vaccination.
疫苗已被证明可预防可通过疫苗预防的疾病引起的疾病、残疾和死亡。我们研究的目的是分析患者的流感和肺炎球菌疫苗接种状况、影响流感/肺炎球菌疫苗接种的因素以及健康素养（HL）对疫苗接种的影响。
在这项横断面研究中，记录了每位患者的人口统计学特征、合并症以及前几年的肺炎球菌和流感疫苗接种状况。使用土耳其版欧洲健康素养调查问卷（HLS-EU-Q47）评估 HL。
共有 350 名患者入组研究。共有 6.3%的患者接种了两种疫苗。20%的受试者接种了流感疫苗，11.1%的受试者接种了肺炎球菌疫苗。总体 HL 不足的患者占 70.9%，有问题的占 20.6%，足够的占 7.1%，优秀的占 14.2%。接种了肺炎球菌和流感疫苗的患者具有更高的疾病预防 HL 评分（p=0.013，p=0.001；分别）。
发现 HL 水平不足的比例远高于之前的研究。观察到疾病预防 HL 的增加与肺炎球菌和流感疫苗接种率的上升有关。
