Health care professionals' awareness of, knowledge about and attitude to influenza vaccination

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 45, 2014, Pages 5957-5961

  Alshammari, Thamir M ^a,b   AlFehaid, Lama S ^c   AlFraih, Joud K ^d   Aljadhey, Hisham S ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Attitude and knowledge; Healthcare professional; Influenza vaccine; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL STAFF; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); SAUDI ARABIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VACCINATION;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAUDI ARABIA; VACCINATION;

EID: 84907963544     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.08.061     Document Type: Article

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