Are Kenyan healthcare workers willing to receive the pandemic influenza vaccine? Results from a cross-sectional survey of healthcare workers in Kenya about knowledge, attitudes and practices concerning infection with and vaccination against 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1), 2010

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3617-3622

  Oria, Prisca A ^a   Matini, Wycliffe ^b   Nelligan, Ian ^a   Emukule, Gideon ^a   Scherzer, Martha ^c   Oyier, Beryl ^a   Ochieng, Hezron N ^a   Hooper, Laura ^a   Kanyuga, Anne ^b   Muthoka, Phillip ^b   Morales, Kathleen F ^a   Nzioka, Charles ^b   Breiman, Robert F ^a   Katz, Mark A ^a,c  

^a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kenya   (Kenya)

^b Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MoPHS)   (Kenya)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare workers; Influenza; Pandemic; Survey; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADULT; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; KENYA; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSE; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955010366     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.01.063     Document Type: Article

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