The study set out to determine the influenza vaccination
rate and to identify factors important in the process of
vaccination acceptance decision making for a group of the
well elderly in the A.C.T.
Prediction of vaccination acceptance was compared using
three measures: stated behavioural intention, report of past
vaccination acceptance and a multiattribute utility decision
model. In this study no one method of prediction was
obviously better than another.
The most important findings of this study included the
marked variations in vaccination rates based on type of
residence of the group members. Of the 15 variables of the
decision model, factors related to the infection of
influenza and possible complications of influenza were seen
as the most important factors by both acceptors and nonacceptors
of the vaccine in making the decision to have the
injection.
These findings can be incorporated into an area vital for
nursing intervention, the planning of nursing programmes of
health promotion and health maintence for the well elderly
population.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219171 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | MacKinlay, Elizabeth, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Elizabeth MacKinlay |
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