Table 1 Reasons for and against influenza vaccination% (95% CI).
Reasons for being immunized | Warsaw (n = 75) | Strasbourg (n = 109) | Teheran (n = 8) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wanted to avoid disease | 73% | (61-82) | 75% | (66-83) | 75% | (35-97) |
Afraid of consequences | 40% | (29-52) | 13% | (7-21) | 13% | (0-53) |
Example of friends | 1% | (0-7) | 1% | (0-5) | 0% | - |
Expert guidelines | 20% | (12-31) | 7% | (3-14) | 25% | (3-65) |
Encouragement by university | 5% | (1-13) | 14% | (8-22) | 0% | - |
Advertising campaign | 1% | (0-7) | 5% | (2-10) | 0% | - |
Others | 9% | (3-18) | 19% | (12-28) | 0% | - |
Reasons for not being immunized | Warsaw (n = 75) | Strasbourg (n = 109) | Teheran (n = 8) | |||
Health problems | 7% | (4-9) | 2% | (0-4) | 3% | (1-7) |
Costs | 11% | (8-14) | 2% | (0-4) | 3% | (1-7) |
Lack of possibility | 4% | (2-6) | 6% | (4-10) | 2% | (0-6) |
Does not know he should | 23% | (19-27) | 16% | (12-22) | 30% | (23-38) |
Lack of time | 28% | (24-32) | 24% | (19-29) | 12% | (7-18) |
Laziness | 26% | (22-30) | 37% | (31-43) | 32% | (25-40) |
Others | 25% | (21-30) | 28% | (23-34) | 21% | (15-28) |