Abstract:
:Monitoring perceptions, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of populations during pandemic flu outbreaks is important as it allows communication strategies to be adjusted to meet emerging needs and assessment to be made of the effects of recommendations for prevention. The ongoing Italian Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (PASSI) offered the setting for investigating people's opinions and behaviors regarding the A/H1N1 pandemic. PASSI surveillance is carried out in 126/148 Italian Local Health Units (LHU) through monthly telephone interviews administered by public health staff to a random sample of the resident population 18-69 years. In fall 2009 additional questions exploring issues related to the A/H1N1 flu were added to the standard questionnaire. The pandemic module was administered on a voluntary basis by the 70 participating LHUs from November 2nd, 2009 to February 7th, 2010; 4 047 interviews were collected. Overall 33% of respondents considered it likely that they would catch flu, 26% stated they were worried, 16% reported having limited some daily activities out of home and 22% said they would accept vaccination if offered. All these indicators showed a decreasing trend across the four-month period of observation. The most trusted sources of information were family doctors (81%). Willingness to be vaccinated was associated with worry about pandemic, age, sex, having a chronic disease and timing of the interview. The surveillance allowed us to gather relevant information, crucial for devising appropriate public health interventions. In future disease outbreaks, systems monitoring people's perceptions and behaviors should be included in the preparedness and response plans.
journal_name
Eur J Epidemioljournal_title
European journal of epidemiologyauthors
Ferrante G,Baldissera S,Moghadam PF,Carrozzi G,Trinito MO,Salmaso Sdoi
10.1007/s10654-011-9576-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-03-01 00:00:00pages
211-9issue
3eissn
0393-2990issn
1573-7284journal_volume
26pub_type
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