Di Giuseppe Gabriella, Pelullo Concetta P, Paolantonio Andrea, Della Polla Giorgia, Pavia Maria
Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Via Armanni, 5, 80138 Naples, Italy.
Health Direction, Teaching Hospital of the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Via S. Maria di Costantinopoli 104, 80138 Naples, Italy.
Vaccines (Basel). 2021 Jul 9;9(7):766. doi: 10.3390/vaccines9070766.
This cross-sectional survey was designed to evaluate hospital healthcare workers' (HCWs) willingness to receive the influenza vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify the related determinants, since it is plausible that the two epidemics will coexist in future winters. Overall, 68% out of 490 participants expressed their willingness to receive influenza vaccination in the 2020/21 season, with 95% of those ever and 45.8% of those never vaccinated in the previous six influenza seasons. Belief that influenza vaccine is useful in distinguishing influenza symptoms from those of COVID-19 and that the influenza vaccine is useful to prevent influenza in hospital settings, willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccination, having no concern about influenza vaccine side effects, concern about the possibility to transmit influenza to hospitalized patients, and influenza vaccination in previous years were all predictors of willingness to receive influenza vaccination. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, a relevant increase in the willingness to undergo influenza vaccination was reported. Therefore, interventions focused primarily on enabling factors are needed to promote the adherence to influenza vaccination in future seasons among HCWs.
这项横断面调查旨在评估在新冠疫情期间医院医护人员接受流感疫苗接种的意愿，并确定相关决定因素，因为这两种流行病在未来冬季可能会同时存在。总体而言，490名参与者中有68%表示愿意在2020/21季节接种流感疫苗，其中95%的人在前六个流感季节接种过疫苗，45.8%的人从未接种过。认为流感疫苗有助于区分流感症状和新冠症状、认为流感疫苗有助于在医院环境中预防流感、愿意接种新冠疫苗、不担心流感疫苗副作用、担心将流感传播给住院患者以及前几年接种过流感疫苗，这些都是接受流感疫苗接种意愿的预测因素。在新冠疫情背景下，报告显示接受流感疫苗接种的意愿有了相应提高。因此，未来需要主要针对促成因素的干预措施，以促进医护人员在未来季节坚持接种流感疫苗。
