Authors

Pablo López Jiménez

Position

Enfermero del Trabajo. Centro de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales de Huelva.

Contact address

Pablo López Jiménez. C/ San José, 16. Esc. 4, 5º A. 28921 Alcorcón (Madrid).

Contact email: pablo_notas@hotmail.com

Abstract

Objective: to determine the vaccination coverage in the medical population of the Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez (HJRJ) in Huelva, and to analyze the reasons which leads them to conduct prophylaxis or not.
Materials and methods: transversal descriptive study on 126 HJRJ medical professionals, selected through stratified random sampling, based on each department. A self-administered questionnaire was used, which had been self-prepared. The Chi-square test was conducted for bivariate analysis with socio-demographic and work-related factors.
Results: 33.3% of participants received the flu vaccination during the 2012/13 season, with “self-protection” as the main reason (85.7%) for vaccination, and “oversight” the main reason (41.5%) for lack of vaccination. 80.9% of participants considered the vaccine to be effective; out of these, only 41.2% received the vaccination (p= 0.001). There was no evidence of association with statistical significance between vaccination and socio-demographic and work-related variables.
Conclusions: it is necessary to highlight the issue of the low percentage of anti-flu vaccination among the medical population studied. This is a matter which might even have a noticeable impact on the health of the population they are working with. In order to improve these data, it would be necessary to provide high levels of information, and easier access to the vaccine.

Keywords:

Flu; influenza; medical staff; vaccine; vaccination coverage; researchtransversal descriptive study

Versión en Español

Título:

Cobertura vacunal de la gripe y motivos de vacunación en personal médico del Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez de Huelva