TY - JOUR
T1 - Survey on public awareness, attitudes, and barriers for herpes zoster vaccination in South Korea
AU - Yang, Tae Un
AU - Cheong, Hee Jin
AU - Song, Joon Young
AU - Noh, Ji Yun
AU - Kim, Woo Joo
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a Korea University Guro Hospital grant (No. KUGH13104–001), underwritten by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. The organization funding this study had no role in the design and performance of the study; the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or the preparation, review, and acceptance of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Copyright:
Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - A cross-sectional study was performed to assess current public awareness of herpes zoster (HZ) and its vaccine, determine the factors that influence people's intention regarding HZ vaccination, and investigate the barriers for vaccination by changing decisions with sequential questions regarding knowledge, cost, and physician's recommendation in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Korea University Guro Hospital, in South Korea, between August 23 and September 15 of 2013. Among 603 subjects who completed the survey, 85.7% and 43.6% subjects were aware of HZ and HZ vaccination, respectively. Women, younger age group, those with higher income or higher education levels were more likely to be aware of HZ. Overall, 85.8% of subjects aware of HZ were willing to be vaccinated or vaccinate their parents. The main obstacles for the increased acceptance toward vaccination were the high cost and low perceived risk, which decreased acceptance to 60.2%. However, physician's recommendation reversed 69.5% of the refusal to accept HZ vaccine. These results indicate that expanding public education and physician's recommendations are important factors aimed at increasing HZ vaccine coverage rate.
AB - A cross-sectional study was performed to assess current public awareness of herpes zoster (HZ) and its vaccine, determine the factors that influence people's intention regarding HZ vaccination, and investigate the barriers for vaccination by changing decisions with sequential questions regarding knowledge, cost, and physician's recommendation in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Korea University Guro Hospital, in South Korea, between August 23 and September 15 of 2013. Among 603 subjects who completed the survey, 85.7% and 43.6% subjects were aware of HZ and HZ vaccination, respectively. Women, younger age group, those with higher income or higher education levels were more likely to be aware of HZ. Overall, 85.8% of subjects aware of HZ were willing to be vaccinated or vaccinate their parents. The main obstacles for the increased acceptance toward vaccination were the high cost and low perceived risk, which decreased acceptance to 60.2%. However, physician's recommendation reversed 69.5% of the refusal to accept HZ vaccine. These results indicate that expanding public education and physician's recommendations are important factors aimed at increasing HZ vaccine coverage rate.
KW - Awareness
KW - Health behavior
KW - Health surveys
KW - Herpes zoster
KW - Vaccination
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U2 - 10.1080/21645515.2015.1008885
DO - 10.1080/21645515.2015.1008885
M3 - Article
C2 - 25785481
AN - SCOPUS:84928688451
VL - 11
SP - 719
EP - 726
JO - Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics
JF - Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics
SN - 2164-5515
IS - 3
ER -
