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Could university training and a proactive attitude of coworkers be associated with influenza vaccination compliance? A multicentre survey among Italian medical residents

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, January 2016
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Title
Could university training and a proactive attitude of coworkers be associated with influenza vaccination compliance? A multicentre survey among Italian medical residents
Published in
BMC Medical Education, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12909-016-0558-8
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Authors

Claudio Costantino, Emanuele Amodio, Giuseppe Calamusa, Francesco Vitale, Walter Mazzucco

Abstract

Although influenza vaccination has been demonstrated to be safe and effective, vaccination coverage rates among health care workers and among medical residents appear generally low. Several investigations have been performed worldwide to analyze the healthcare workers' educational deficiencies. This multicentre survey aimed to investigate at a nationwide level training quality and work environment associated with seasonal influenza vaccination uptake among Italian medical residents. A retrospective cohort study was carried out from April 2012 to June 2012 on medical residents regularly attending the post-graduate medical schools of 18 Italian Universities via an anonymous, self administered, web-based questionnaire. Data have been analyzed by using the R statistical software package. A total of 2506 out of 10,854 medical residents (23.1 %) have been recruited. The quality of training on influenza and influenza vaccination was reported as "fair" or "poor" during both pre-graduate (40.7 % of respondents) and post-graduate medical school (59.6 % of respondents). Vaccination uptake was associated with adherence to seasonal 2011/2012 influenza vaccination of medical school tutors (adjusted OR = 4.4; 95 % CI = 1.35-14.26) and other medical residents (adjusted OR = 2.2; 95 % CI = 1.14-4.23). Moreover, influenza vaccination uptake was also associated with correct knowledge about the virus composition of 2011/2012 influenza vaccine (adjusted OR = 2.43; 95 % CI = 1.64-2.58) and consultation of scientific sources or Institutional recommendations on influenza vaccination (adjusted OR = 6.96; 95 % CI = 3.38-214.36). Medical residency represents an opportunity to implement educational and training interventions aiming to promote appropriate professional behaviors and skills. Our study suggest that appropriate training, adequate education and proactive coworkers feelings can improve influenza vaccination attitudes towards young doctor.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 71 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 15%
Student > Master 10 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 10%
Other 4 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 22 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 10%
Psychology 6 8%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Linguistics 1 1%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 30 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 January 2018.
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#7,544,865
of 23,018,998 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#1,363
of 3,368 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#126,219
of 397,447 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#33
of 86 outputs
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