Motivators for, Barriers to and coverage of influenza vaccination among the adult community and the healthcare providers in Fujairah Primary Healthcare Centers

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Alabdouli F1*, Varghese R2, Akour A3

Background: Influenza affects large population around the world annually, with impacts on health, social and economic aspects. Nowadays after the COVID pandemic, Flu vaccine intake globally has been affected both positively and negatively.

Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the uptake, barriers and motivators of influenza vaccines among the community and healthcare providers in Fujairah Primary health care centres. The primary objectives are to: (1) Assess the extent of coverage of seasonal influenza vaccination in Fujairah Primary Healthcare Centers; (2) Identify the barriers of seasonal influenza vaccination; and (3) Identify the motivators of seasonal influenza vaccination. Secondary objective is to identify factors that are potentially correlated to uptake, barriers and motivators toward vaccine uptake.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive survey among community attending (non-medical) and health care providers (medical) working in the 13 Fujairah Primary Health Care centers. Data was collected electronically from 606 respondents and was analysed statistically using the SPSS v.22.

Result: From the 606 records initially, 519 responses were included in this study, with 68.4% of respondents took the Flu vaccine. The comparison of coverage of Flu vaccine between medical and non-medical respondents showed that out of 226 medical respondents, 81.9 % took the Flu vaccine while out of 293 non- medical respondents, 58% were covered. The main barrier for vaccine uptake was found to be the fear of vaccine adverse reactions (n=141;23.3%) in both medical and non- medical field. Self-protection was found to be the most important motivator for both medical (64.2%) and non-medical (58%) respondents.

Conclusion: The uptake rate on influenza vaccination among health professionals is higher than the community. The study reflected that self-protection was the main motivating factor for flu vaccine coverage while the main barrier was fear of adverse reaction in both healthcare professionals and community. Our recommendations as per the study findings is to create more awareness by providing advanced education about the importance of Flu vaccine uptake and benefits of vaccine, especially in the community.

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