Vaccine
Volume 32, Issue 45, Pages 5889-6024 (14 October 2014)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0264410X/32/45

Health care professionals’ awareness of, knowledge about and attitude to influenza vaccination
Original Research Article
Pages 5957-5961
Thamir M. Alshammari, Lama S. AlFehaid, Joud K. AlFraih, Hisham S. Aljadhey
Highlights
:: We investigated the awareness, knowledge, and attitude of health care professionals (HCPs) towards influenza vaccination.
:: Only 38% of HCPs surveyed in Saudi Arabian hospitals is vaccinated against influenza.
:: The most common reasons given by HCPs for not getting vaccinated were: fear of contracting illness.
:: The most common barrier that prevented institutions providing the influenza vaccine was HCPs’ and patients’ concerns about safety of vaccine.
Almost 75% of HCPs surveyed in Saudi Arabia were not aware of the influenza immunization guidelines.