Do they accept compulsory vaccination?: Awareness, attitudes and behaviour of hospital health care workers following a new vaccination directive

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• 作者：Holly Seale ; Julie Leask ; C. Raina MacIntyre
• 关键词：Health care worker ; Vaccination ; Hospitals
• 刊名：Vaccine
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：18 May 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：27
• 期：23
• 页码：3022-3025
• 全文大小：151 K

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Achieving high vaccination rates among health care workers (HCW) is an ongoing challenge. In 2007, the state of New South Wales, Australia instituted a policy directive with compulsory provisions for health care workers to be vaccinated. This study sought to identify staff awareness and attitudes in the early phase of implementation. It involved a self-completed paper-based or electronic survey of HCWs in two tertiary-referral teaching hospitals in Sydney, Australia in 2007. A total of 894/1200 completed the paper survey, whilst a further 185 completed it online. Of the 1079 respondents, 60 % (646/1079) were aware of the policy directive but only 10 % (63/646) described the specific requirements. Seventy-eight per cent supported the policy; 13 % neither supported nor opposed it; and 4 % opposed it. This survey provides an early, broad indication of the level of understanding and the attitudes of the HCWs towards the new directive.