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- Title
Je veřejnost dostatečně informována o významu očkování proti pertusi v dospělosti?
- Authors
Macounová, P.; Skřížalová, T.; Tomášková, H.; Maďar, R.
- Abstract
Aim. The aim of the survey is to find out what is the awareness of the population in the Czech Republic about the pertussis disease and it's prevention and to evaluate the factors influencing the level of knowledge. Factors that were monitored are age, education, gender, work or study in health care and pregnancy or motherhood in a child under one year of age. Methods. An online unstructured questionnaire was created for quantitative data collection. The data were statistically tested, in particular a two-sample t-test for comparing results between the sexes, as well as a logistic regression test, which compared the individual monitored factors, were used. Statistical testing was performed in Stata version 14. Results. Only less than 12% of respondents showed sufficient knowledge of pertussis prevention (≥ 50% correctness of answers). Work or study in health care was the only statistically significant factor for better knowledge. On the contrary, pregnant women and mothers of children under 1 year of age did not show better awareness, according to the logistic regression test they had 4.9 times worse knowledge than healthcare workers (OR: 4.902482, SE: 2.677679, 95% CI: 1.680736–14.29988). Conclusion. Given the low knowledge of public, especially pregnant women and mothers of children under 1 year of age about the importance of pertussis vaccination during pregnancy, it would be appropriate to focus on spreading awareness, in which primary care physicians should be involved.
- Publication
General Practitioner / Praktický Lékař, 2021, Vol 101, Issue 5, p268
- ISSN
0032-6739
- Publication type
Article