英文摘要 |
The purposes of this study were to understand the health beliefs and the behavioral intentions of influenza vaccination among health care professionals. This research was based on a cross-sectional study. The population of this research was 3918 health care professionals at a certain medical center in northern Taiwan. The 1678 participants of this research were selected by a stratified randomly sampling. A self-developed questionnaire was used. The effective questionnaires were 663 excluding those with allergy or taboo and ineffective questionnaires. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, one way ANOVA, and Scheffe's posteriori comparison. The main findings of this study were as follows: 1. Health beliefs of influenza vaccination: (1) Perceived susceptibility to influenza: the virus in the hospital working environment; (2) Perceived seriousness to influenza: the great impacts to the job and the family, the feelings of fatigue and fever; (3) Perceived benefits of influenza vaccination: the decrease of the susceptibility for individuals and patients; (4) Perceived barriers to influenza vaccination: the side effects and the non-safety of the vaccine; 2. Behavioral intentions of influenza vaccination: The intentions for influenza vaccination among research participants were 60.79%. 3. The test of differences on the health beliefs, the behavioral intentions for research participants with different socio-demographics: (1) There was a significant difference on perceived susceptibility to influenza for health care professionals with different department; (2) There were significant differences on perceived severity of influenza for health care professionals with different gender, education level, marital status, working experience, and department; (3) There was a significant difference on perceived benefits of influenza vaccination for health care professionals with different marital status; (4) There was a significant difference on perceived barriers to influenza vaccination for health care professionals with different age. (5) There were significant differences on behavioral intentions to influenza vaccination for health care professionals with different age, marital status, working experience, and department; The findings of this study could be applied as references to the establishment of policies of public health, disease control and prevention in the hospital. |