Attitudes of health care workers to influenza vaccination: Why are they not vaccinated?

Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake in Germany 2007/2008 and 2008/2009: Results from a national health update survey

“…Low vaccination coverage among HCWs has been observed not only in Germany but also in several other European and non-European countries [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. assessed by Blank et al was similar to that found in our study [20], vaccination coverage in the target groups diverged significantly from our findings.…”

Effectiveness of the Brazilian influenza vaccination policy, a systematic review

“…Among them, four evaluated vaccine coverage among health professionals and/or immune-deficient patients (Table 1). Among health professionals, two surveys conducted in two of the leading university hospitals in the country presented coverage of 19.7% and 34.4% 4,33 . In the same institutions, vaccine coverage among transplant patients varied between 44.2% (bone marrow transplant) and 0% (kidney) 5,25 .…”

Trust and the demand for autonomy may explain the low rates of immunizations among nurses

“…Evidence regarding past low rates of influenza vaccinations among HCW in other countries [16][17][18][19][20][21] emphasizes the importance of understanding the barriers to influenza vaccination. HCW vaccine is a vaccine they routinely vaccinate infants with, and the health district implemented a yearlong intervention to increase compliance with the vaccine, whereas the influenza vaccine is not a routine vaccine they work with.…”

“…Many studies have looked at the low compliance with the seasonal influenza vaccine in the general population 15 and among HCW. [16][17][18][19][20][21] Levels of compliance among nurses were low. However, among physicians there are studies that reported higher levels of influenza vaccine coverage.…”