To achieve vaccine uptake approaching vaccination intention (49.6%), activation of the correct drivers and dealing with the vaccination barriers is to be further implemented in Germany.
The survey instrument included a series of questions on the practice of required vaccines, knowledge and risk perceptions, health beliefs and vaccination intention.
Vaccination intention and uptake varies among different countries, 13.5 89.0% and 7.5 63.0%, respectively.
Finally, vaccination planning is a key intervening variable between vaccination intention and actual vaccination.
This is problematic because factors associated with vaccination intention and actual vaccination receipt probably differ.
First, all except one [24] relied on vaccination intention to predict the actual vaccination uptake.
Thus it seems that social norms comprise the major influences on vaccination uptake through modifying vaccination intention and planning.
Both the TPB and the additional components contributed to intended vaccination uptake but social norms and anticipated regret predominantly associated with vaccination intention and planning.
The model showed that an expanded social norms and anticipated regret accounted for most of the variance in vaccination intention, rather than the more core elements of TPB.
Mplus 6.0 for Windows (Muthén & Muthén, 1998 2010) was employed because the model comprised dichotomous (vaccination status) and ordinal (vaccination intention) outcome variables.
Proportions were calculated to describe patterns of vaccination intention, reported vaccination uptake, and major reasons for taking or not taking pH1N1 vaccination.
