From: Influenza vaccination among healthcare workers in a multidisciplinary University hospital in Italy
Questions and answers | Overall results (No. = 2,143) | Medicine (No.= 895) | Surgery (No.= 415) | Emergency (No.= 335) | Services (No.= 498) |
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Do you consider influenza a potentially severe disease? | |||||
Yes | 1,214 (56.6) | 546 (61.0)* | 203 (48.9) | 198 (59.1)° | 267 (53.6) |
Which age group has the highest incidence of influenza-related complications? | |||||
Children aged <2 years | 236 (11.0) | 86 (9.6) | 51 (12.3) | 39 (11.6) | 60 (12.1) |
Schoolchildren | 97 (4.5) | 46 (5.1) | 19 (4.6) | 10 (3.0) | 22 (4.4) |
The elderly | 1,810 (84.5) | 763 (85.3) | 345 (83.1) | 286 (85.4) | 416 (83.5) |
Which age group has the highest incidence of influenza cases? | |||||
Children aged <2 years | 285 (13.3) | 99 (11.1)^ | 53 (12.8) | 46 (13.7) | 87 (17.5) |
Schoolchildren | 887 (41.4) | 344 (38.4)°° | 181 (43.6) | 111 (33.1)°° | 251 (50.4) |
The elderly | 971 (45.3) | 452 (50.5)°° | 181 (43.6) | 178 (53.2) | 160 (32.1) |
Are you afraid of avian influenza? | |||||
Yes | 247 (11.5) | 96 (10.7)^ | 50 (12.0) | 27 (8.1)^ | 74 (14.8) |