Pandemic influenza H1N1 vaccination intention: psychosocial determinants and implications from a national survey, Taiwan

Jiun‐Hau Huang · Yen‐Yu Miao · P.-C. Kuo

21 citations0/0 files storedEuropean Journal of Public Health

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Influenza Virus Research Studies Risk Perception and Management

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Vaccination has been recommended as an effective way to protect people from severe illness during influenza pandemics; however, little is known about the acceptability and psychosocial determinants of intention to receive vaccination against pandemic influenza A/H1N1 (pH1N1). METHODS: A national computer-assisted telephone interview survey using random digit dialing was conducted during 28-30 October 2009 among residents of Taiwan aged ≥15 years. RESULTS: Of the 1079 participants interviewed, 70.1% reported intention to receive pH1N1 vaccination. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that participants who perceived pH1N1 in Taiwan to be much more severe than that in other countries [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 1.94; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.05-3.60], who agreed (AOR = 2.44; 95% CI = 1.30-4.58) or strongly agreed (AOR = 2.53; 95% CI = 1.38-4.65) that contracting pH1N1 would have a great impact on their daily life, who perceived pH1N1 vaccination to be very effective in preventing pH1N1 (AOR = 2.64; 95% CI = 1.61-4.33) and who considered receiving vaccination not very difficult (AOR = 8.97; 95% CI = 6.05-13.29) or not at all difficult (AOR = 30.72; 95% CI = 19.24-49.04) were more inclined towards getting vaccinated against pH1N1. CONCLUSION: These specific and modifiable health beliefs have practical implications for prevention and policy making, and highlight the importance of minimizing perceived barriers while convincing the public of the seriousness of the disease and effectiveness of vaccination when promoting vaccination programmes.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 21 citations exist upstream.

References

1984The Health Belief Model: A Decade Later 1976Health Belief Model and Personal Health Behavior 2009Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak: cross sectional telephone survey 2010Factors in vaccination intention against the pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2010Acceptance of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination by the Australian public 2009Acceptability of A/H1N1 vaccination during pandemic phase of influenza A/H1N1 in Hong Kong: population based cross sectional survey 2010Factors in association with acceptability of A/H1N1 vaccination during the influenza A/H1N1 pandemic phase in the Hong Kong general population 2009Public perceptions in relation to intention to receive pandemic influenza vaccination in a random population sample: evidence from a cross-sectional telephone survey

Cited by

2015Perceptions and Behavioral Responses of the General Public During the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic: A Systematic Review 2021A message of the majority with scientific evidence encourages young people to show their prosocial nature in COVID-19 vaccination 2014Determinants of Receiving the Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Vaccine and Intention to Receive the Seasonal Influenza Vaccine in Taiwan

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.