Independent variables included gender, age, occupation, species of attacking animal, animal vaccination status, category of exposure, and exposure site.
The questions on net monthly household income and "whether any of the following ideas influenced the participants'/parents' opinion on vaccination" (answer categories: anthroposophy (i.e., a spiritual philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner), homeopathy (i.e., form of alternative medicine), other alternative medicine, religion, other, or none of those ideas) were only asked in the second survey.
However, the VC reported here suggest a poor adherence to influenza vaccination in this category, as confirmed in another large cohort of French pregnant women in 2009 [ 27], were 29% of women reported to be vaccinated against pandemic influenza.
Positive associations by statistical tests between vaccination and syndromic categories were further reviewed for temporal trends among vaccinated individuals and during the entire period of observation to identify possible increased risk in the vaccinated population or around the time of the vaccination campaign, both for the syndromic category and the common illness within the category.
In addition, due to small cell sizes and similarity of adjacent vaccination rates, some categories of SES were collapsed for logistic regression analysis.
The analysis by type of nursing home (Table 2) shows that, for all occupational categories, vaccination coverage was consistently higher in private ECRs than in both public ECRs and LTCFs.
Not really, as she does not come under the high-risk category for vaccination.
The factors influencing vaccination administration included the category of exposure (OR = 3.437) and the exposure site (OR = 0.397).
Although no differences were observed between medical and non-medical staff, influenza vaccination uptake varied by category within the medical staff.
