The Vaccine Training Barometer: Assessing healthcare providers’ confidence to answer vaccine-related questions and their training needs

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Títol: The Vaccine Training Barometer: Assessing healthcare providers’ confidence to answer vaccine-related questions and their training needs
Autors: De Waele, Aurélie | Hendrickx, Greet | Valckx, Sara | Domínguez, Ángela | Toledo, Diana | Castilla, Jesús | Tuells, José | Van Damme, Pierre
Grups d'investigació o GITE: Salud Comunitaria (SALUD)
Centre, Departament o Servei: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Enfermería Comunitaria, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia
Paraules clau: Vaccine communication | Healthcare provider-patient communication | Vaccine confidence
Data de publicació: 7-de març-2024
Editor: Elsevier
Citació bibliogràfica: Vaccine. 2024, 42(9): 2421-2428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.02.078
Resum: Healthcare providers (HCP) are seen by the public as the most trustworthy source of information about vaccination. While HCPs could be a valuable partner to increase vaccine confidence in general, it is not clear whether they feel confident themselves to address questions concerning vaccination. In the context of the EU Joint Action on Vaccination (EU-JAV), the Vaccine Training Barometer, an online survey tool, was developed to assess how frequently HCPs receive questions about vaccination, how confident they feel to answer these questions, and to what extent they are willing to follow extra training. After a pilot test in Flanders, Belgium, the Barometer was launched and completed by 833 HCPs in Flanders and 291 HCPs in the Spanish regions of Catalonia, Navarre and Valencian Community from November 2020 until January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, just before and during the start of the first COVID-19 vaccination campaigns. In both countries, HCPs frequently received questions about vaccination (mostly on a daily or weekly basis), and about two thirds of them indicated that the frequency of questions had increased during the three months prior to completing the survey. Most questions were about the side effects and safety of vaccines. In both countries, a considerable proportion of HCPs did not feel confident to answer vaccine-related questions (31.5% felt confident in Flanders, 21.6% in Spain). A large proportion of HCPs received questions in the last three months before the survey that they could not answer (52.4% of respondents in Flemish sample, 41.5% in Spanish sample). Only 11.4% (Flanders) and 11.3% (Spain) of the respondents felt they gained sufficient knowledge through their standard education to be able to answer questions about vaccination. Almost all respondents were willing to follow extra training on vaccination (Flanders: 95.4%, Spain: 96.6%). The Vaccine Training Barometer is thus a useful tool to monitor HCPs’ confidence to answer questions about vaccination and to capture their training needs.
Patrocinadors: The Vaccine Training Barometer was developed within the sustainability work package of the framework of the EU Joint Action on Vaccination and has received co-funding from the European Union’s Health Programme under Grant Agreement no. 801495.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/141559
ISSN: 0264-410X (Print) | 1873-2518 (Online)
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.02.078
Idioma: eng
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Drets: © 2024 Elsevier Ltd.
Revisió científica: si
Versió de l'editor: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.02.078
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