Beurteilung der Impfnotwendigkeit durch deutsche Medizinstudierende

Voigt, Karen; Riemenschneider, Henna; Balogh, Erika; Schuebel, Jeannine; Schelling, Jörg; Sanftenberg, Linda und Bergmann, Antje (2019): Beurteilung der Impfnotwendigkeit durch deutsche Medizinstudierende. In: Pravention und Gesundheitsforderung, Bd. 14, Nr. 2: S. 190-197

Abstract

BackgroundMost studies among medical students show high approval rates regarding the importance of vaccination in general. Due to indication-specific vaccination recommendations and differently perceived risks of individual vaccine-preventable diseases, it is to be assumed that the importance of vaccination should be assessed in a vaccination-specific manner.ObjectivesThis study examines (a)whether medical students assess the importance of vaccination differently for specific vaccinations and (b)whether these assessments are associated with study location (Dresden vs. Munich) or study year.Materials and methodsImportance of indication-specific vaccinations was assessed in amulticenter cross-sectional study (health survey) among medical students (n=1081). Subgroup differences were analysed by bivariate and multivariate methods.ResultsFrequency of assessment vaccinations are absolutely necessary varied according to the vaccination: it was between 68% for hepatitisA and 91% for tetanus. The study year compared to the study site showed significantly higher effect values for almost all vaccine indications: significantly more students in the fifth than those in the third or the first study year assessed vaccinations as absolutely necessary.Discussion and conclusionsImportance of vaccination should be examined specifically for each vaccination. For almost all examined vaccinations, the higher number of students who assessed indication-specific vaccinations as absolutely necessary was associated with advanced study year at all study sites. Due to increasing incidences of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, there is afurther need for clarification, especially in the first study years.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 1861-6755
• Sprache: Deutsch