Adherence of community health workers to hepatitis B vaccination

Introduction: Hepatitis B (HB) vaccination for health-care workers is essential for World Health Organization’s goals achievement of viral hepatitis (VH) elimination. However, recent studies showed low vaccination adherence by these professionals and lack of knowledge about HB vaccination adherence...

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Autores principales:	Paula Kuster Pinto, Sara dos Santos Amorim, Tatiane Silva Rocha, Lorena Rabelo Feriane, Adauto Vieira de Almeida, Verena Kise Capellini, Flávia Marini Paro
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Publicado:	Faculdade de Medicina do ABC 2021
Materias:	hepatitis B community health workers immunization epidemiology health education education, continuing Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:181b692bcf9848caaab6d8044aaeca582021-11-04T20:19:54ZAdherence of community health workers to hepatitis B vaccination10.7322/abcshs.2020058.15002318-49652357-8114https://doaj.org/article/181b692bcf9848caaab6d8044aaeca582021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://portalnepas.org.br/abcshs/article/view/1500https://doaj.org/toc/2318-4965https://doaj.org/toc/2357-8114 Introduction: Hepatitis B (HB) vaccination for health-care workers is essential for World Health Organization’s goals achievement of viral hepatitis (VH) elimination. However, recent studies showed low vaccination adherence by these professionals and lack of knowledge about HB vaccination adherence of community health workers (CHW). Objective: To identify the adherence of CHW to HB vaccination; to determine the causes of non-adherence; to investigate whether the prevalence of vaccination is different among surveyed towns, and to verify whether years practiced as CHW have any association with vaccination adherence. Methods: This cross-sectional study included five towns (T) of a Brazilian state. Data were collected at VH educational meetings, in which CHW answered a questionnaire. The proportions Z-test and the likelihood ratio test were used for statistical analysis. Significance was set at p<0.05. Results: The sample included 516 CHW. Most CHW (86.8%) reported to have taken the vaccine, but only 59.7% affirmed having taken all doses, and 28.1% correctly answered the number of doses. 24.4% of CHW pointed the unknowing about HB vaccine importance as the main reason for non-adherence. T4 and T5 showed higher vaccination prevalence than T2 and T1. Vaccination adherence was higher among individuals with more years working as CHW. Conclusion: CHW demonstrated low adherence to HB vaccination and pointed the lack of knowledge about HB vaccine importance as the main reason for that. There were differences in vaccination prevalence among the towns and adherence was positively associated with professional experience. Paula Kuster PintoSara dos Santos AmorimTatiane Silva RochaLorena Rabelo FerianeAdauto Vieira de AlmeidaVerena Kise CapelliniFlávia Marini ParoFaculdade de Medicina do ABCarticlehepatitis Bcommunity health workersimmunizationepidemiologyhealth educationeducation, continuingMedicineRENESPTABCS Health Sciences, Vol 46 (2021)
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language	EN ES PT
topic	hepatitis B community health workers immunization epidemiology health education education, continuing Medicine R
spellingShingle	hepatitis B community health workers immunization epidemiology health education education, continuing Medicine R Paula Kuster Pinto Sara dos Santos Amorim Tatiane Silva Rocha Lorena Rabelo Feriane Adauto Vieira de Almeida Verena Kise Capellini Flávia Marini Paro Adherence of community health workers to hepatitis B vaccination
description	Introduction: Hepatitis B (HB) vaccination for health-care workers is essential for World Health Organization’s goals achievement of viral hepatitis (VH) elimination. However, recent studies showed low vaccination adherence by these professionals and lack of knowledge about HB vaccination adherence of community health workers (CHW). Objective: To identify the adherence of CHW to HB vaccination; to determine the causes of non-adherence; to investigate whether the prevalence of vaccination is different among surveyed towns, and to verify whether years practiced as CHW have any association with vaccination adherence. Methods: This cross-sectional study included five towns (T) of a Brazilian state. Data were collected at VH educational meetings, in which CHW answered a questionnaire. The proportions Z-test and the likelihood ratio test were used for statistical analysis. Significance was set at p<0.05. Results: The sample included 516 CHW. Most CHW (86.8%) reported to have taken the vaccine, but only 59.7% affirmed having taken all doses, and 28.1% correctly answered the number of doses. 24.4% of CHW pointed the unknowing about HB vaccine importance as the main reason for non-adherence. T4 and T5 showed higher vaccination prevalence than T2 and T1. Vaccination adherence was higher among individuals with more years working as CHW. Conclusion: CHW demonstrated low adherence to HB vaccination and pointed the lack of knowledge about HB vaccine importance as the main reason for that. There were differences in vaccination prevalence among the towns and adherence was positively associated with professional experience.
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author	Paula Kuster Pinto Sara dos Santos Amorim Tatiane Silva Rocha Lorena Rabelo Feriane Adauto Vieira de Almeida Verena Kise Capellini Flávia Marini Paro
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title	Adherence of community health workers to hepatitis B vaccination
title_short	Adherence of community health workers to hepatitis B vaccination
title_full	Adherence of community health workers to hepatitis B vaccination
title_fullStr	Adherence of community health workers to hepatitis B vaccination
title_full_unstemmed	Adherence of community health workers to hepatitis B vaccination
title_sort	adherence of community health workers to hepatitis b vaccination
publisher	Faculdade de Medicina do ABC
publishDate	2021
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Adherence of community health workers to hepatitis B vaccination

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