影响老年人打算接种疫苗的因素
Rolanda Olds1, Casondra Seibert2, Anne H Metzger3
11 Cedarville University School of Pharmacy, Cedarville, Ohio.
The Senior care pharmacist
|August 24, 2024
概括
药剂师可以通过在方便的社区地点提供疫苗来提高老年人疫苗接种率. 许多老年人更喜欢社区中心,面临交通障碍,年龄较大与疫苗怀疑有关.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 药房实践 在药房实践.
背景情况:
- 疫苗接种对于预防疾病和降低死亡率至关重要.
- 有限的数据存在于药剂师在传统环境之外的可访问性及其对老年人疫苗接种意图的影响.
- 了解患者的感知是改善老年人群接种疫苗的关键.
研究的目的:
- 调查老年人对药剂师接种疫苗的准入能力的看法.
- 评估药剂师可访问性对老年人疫苗接种意向的影响.
- 确定首选的疫苗接种地点和老年人接种疫苗的障碍.
主要方法:
- 使用匿名电子调查对社区居住的老年人进行定量研究.
- 在各个疫苗诊所从参与者那里收集的调查,包括10个关于过去接种疫苗的原因,社区活动中接种疫苗的可能性和接种的重要性的问题.
- 数据使用描述性和推断性统计学进行分析,对特定项目进行5分利克特级.
主要成果:
- 178名老年人 (平均年龄75岁) 参加;70.8%是女性.
- 社区中心 (44.9%) 是首选接种疫苗的地点,其次是医生诊所 (17.4%).
- 承认存在运输障碍,年龄较大与疫苗无效的信念增加相关 (P=0.011).
结论:
- 药剂师应该在社区中心等可访问的地点增加社区外展,以提高老年人疫苗接种率.
- 解决交通障碍和对疫苗的怀疑对于改善老年人公共卫生结果至关重要.
- 将疫苗接种策略定制为首选地点,并解决特定的人口偏好 (例如,地点偏好的性别差异) 可以提高疫苗的可访问性.
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