| Abstract [eng] |
Goal of the paper work: Identification of the attitude to vaccination of patients in the outpatient clinics of Vilnius. Tasks of the paper work are as follows: 1. Evaluate the attitude of the patients to safety, benefit, efficiency of vaccination, and the calendar of children’s vaccination. 2. Evaluate the attitude of the patients to vaccination against: flu, pneumococcal infection, human papillomavirus infection, diphtheria, tetanus. 3. Establish sufficiency of information sources of the patients about vaccination and information. 4. Evaluate the factors capable to have influence on the attitude of the patients to vaccination. Methods: The research was conducted by using an anonymous questionnaire, which had been completed by 593 respondents. The data analysis was done by using non-parametric tests and logistic regression. The statistic data analysis was done by using software SPSS 16.0, WinPepi. Results: 57,1 % of the respondents have agreed with the statement that vaccinations are safe, 60,4 % think that they are more useful than harmful, and 61,5 % - they are effective. 84,5 % have agreed that children must be vaccinated in accordance with an established calendar of children’s vaccination and 95,4 % of the children of parents have been vaccinated in accordance to it. 85,4 % of the patents think that flue is a dangerous infection. 43,7 % have agreed that it is required to vaccinate persons of 65 years old and older, 51,9 % - that children of any age who has chronic illnesses, 32,4 % - that women who will be pregnant during the influenza season, 58,0 % - that persons who live together with those who has chronic illnesses and 4-year-old children. 48,5 % of the participants have agreed that vaccines against influenza are safe while 51,0 % - that they are effective. 76,3 % have agreed that vaccine against influenza is easy accessible. Last year only 18 % were vaccinated against influenza while this year 20,3 % of the participants are going to have vaccine or have already done this. Common reasons for non-vaccinations: 26,9 % apply self-treatment when they get ill with influenza, 26,7 % - due to undesirable effects, 24,8 % - protect from influenza by enhancing their health. Doctors recommended to 19,9 % of the patients to have vaccine against influenza while 12,9 % – pneumococcal vaccine. 55,7 % responded that they had heard about HPV. Those who had heard about HPV were less – only 37,7 % while those who had heard that vaccine could prevent women from cervical cancer was the least part (27,6 %). 51,1 % have agreed with the statement that vaccination against HPV infection must introduced into the scheduled calendar of children’s vaccination. 67,6 % of the patients have agreed that every 10 years the adults should be vaccinated against diphtheria and tetanus. 52,2 % of the objects have responded that they have enough information about vaccinations. The most common sources of information about vaccinations are employees of a medicinal organisation (54,8 %), internet (45,7 %), TV (38,5 %). Development of the attitude to vaccinations was influenced by gender, mass media, severe form of past influenza infection. Gender influenced this attitude negatively, the rest factors – positively. Conclusions: The attitude of the patients to vaccination in general and to individual vaccines was more positive than negative but knowledge about vaccines was more insufficient. Sources of information about vaccinations were reliable; however, a lack of information about vaccinations was observed. Relation of the attitude with gender, mass media, severe form of past influenza infection was established. |
