Predictors of influenza vaccine uptake during the 2009/10 influenza A H1N1v (‘swine flu’) pandemic: Results from five national surveys in the United Kingdom

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Preventive Medicine
Volume 84, Pages 1-98 (March 2016)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00917435/84

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Original Research Article
Predictors of influenza vaccine uptake during the 2009/10 influenza A H1N1v (‘swine flu’) pandemic: Results from five national surveys in the United Kingdom
Pages 57-61
You Kyung Julia Han, Susan Michie, Henry W.W. Potts, G. James Rubin
Highlights
:: We analysed data from UK telephone surveys conducted during the 2009/10 pandemic.
:: We explored reasons for accepting or declining the swine flu vaccination.
:: Main reasons given for declining were safety concerns and being generally healthy.
:: Believing the vaccine to be ineffective was strongly associated with declining it.