Examining the knowledge, attitudes and practices of domestic and international university students towards seasonal and pandemic influenza
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Auteurs : Holly Seale [Australie] ; Jackie Pi Mak [Australie] ; Husna Razee [Australie] ; C Raina Macintyre [Australie]Source :
- BMC Public Health [ 1471-2458 ] ; 2012.
Abstract
Prior to the availability of the specific pandemic vaccine, strategies to mitigate the impact of the disease typically involved antiviral treatment and “non-pharmaceutical” community interventions. However, compliance with these strategies is linked to risk perceptions, perceived severity and perceived effectiveness of the strategies. In 2010, we undertook a study to examine the knowledge, attitudes, risk perceptions, practices and barriers towards influenza and infection control strategies amongst domestic and international university students.
A study using qualitative methods that incorporated 20 semi-structured interviews was undertaken with domestic and international undergraduate and postgraduate university students based at one university in Sydney, Australia. Participants were invited to discuss their perceptions of influenza (seasonal vs. pandemic) in terms of perceived severity and impact, and attitudes towards infection control measures including hand-washing and the use of social distancing, isolation or cough etiquette.
While participants were generally knowledgeable about influenza transmission, they were unable to accurately define what ‘pandemic influenza’ meant. While avian flu or SARS were mistaken as examples of past pandemics, almost all participants were able to associate the recent “swine flu” situation as an example of a pandemic event. Not surprisingly, it was uncommon for participants to identify university students as being at risk of catching pandemic influenza. Amongst those interviewed, it was felt that ‘students’ were capable of fighting off any illness. The participant’s nominated hand washing as the most feasible and acceptable compared with social distancing and mask use.
Given the high levels of interaction that occurs in a university setting, it is really important that students are informed about disease transmission and about risk of infection. It may be necessary to emphasize that pandemic influenza could pose a real threat to them, that it is important to protect oneself from infection and that infection control measures can be effective.
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DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-307
PubMed: 22537252
PubMed Central: 3447694
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However, compliance with these strategies is linked to risk perceptions, perceived severity and perceived effectiveness of the strategies. In 2010, we undertook a study to examine the knowledge, attitudes, risk perceptions, practices and barriers towards influenza and infection control strategies amongst domestic and international university students.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>A study using qualitative methods that incorporated 20 semi-structured interviews was undertaken with domestic and international undergraduate and postgraduate university students based at one university in Sydney, Australia. Participants were invited to discuss their perceptions of influenza (seasonal vs. pandemic) in terms of perceived severity and impact, and attitudes towards infection control measures including hand-washing and the use of social distancing, isolation or cough etiquette.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>While participants were generally knowledgeable about influenza transmission, they were unable to accurately define what ‘pandemic influenza’ meant. While avian flu or SARS were mistaken as examples of past pandemics, almost all participants were able to associate the recent “swine flu” situation as an example of a pandemic event. Not surprisingly, it was uncommon for participants to identify university students as being at risk of catching pandemic influenza. Amongst those interviewed, it was felt that ‘students’ were capable of fighting off any illness. The participant’s nominated hand washing as the most feasible and acceptable compared with social distancing and mask use.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusions</title><p>Given the high levels of interaction that occurs in a university setting, it is really important that students are informed about disease transmission and about risk of infection. It may be necessary to emphasize that pandemic influenza could pose a real threat to them, that it is important to protect oneself from infection and that infection control measures can be effective.</p></sec></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Rubin, G" uniqKey="Rubin G">G Rubin</name></author><author><name sortKey="Amlot, R" uniqKey="Amlot R">R Amlot</name></author><author><name sortKey="Page, L" uniqKey="Page L">L Page</name></author><author><name sortKey="Wessely, S" uniqKey="Wessely S">S Wessely</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Seale, H" uniqKey="Seale H">H Seale</name></author><author><name sortKey="Heywood, Ae" uniqKey="Heywood A">AE Heywood</name></author><author><name sortKey="Mclaws, M L" uniqKey="Mclaws M">M-L McLaws</name></author><author><name sortKey="Ward, Kf" uniqKey="Ward K">KF Ward</name></author><author><name sortKey="Lowbridge, Cp" uniqKey="Lowbridge 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">BMC Public Health</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">BMC Public Health</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>BMC Public Health</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">1471-2458</issn><publisher><publisher-name>BioMed Central</publisher-name><publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">22537252</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">3447694</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4263</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1186/1471-2458-12-307</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Examining the knowledge, attitudes and practices of domestic and international university students towards seasonal and pandemic influenza</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Seale</surname><given-names>Holly</given-names></name><address><email>h.seale@unsw.edu.au</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff4">4</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mak</surname><given-names>Jackie PI</given-names></name><address><email>joshuakiemak@gmail.com</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2">2</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Razee</surname><given-names>Husna</given-names></name><address><email>husna.razee@unsw.edu.au</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>MacIntyre</surname><given-names>C Raina</given-names></name><address><email>r.macintyre@unsw.edu.au</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff3">3</xref></contrib><aff id="Aff1"><label>1</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.1005.4</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000000449020432</institution-id><institution>School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,</institution><institution>The University of New South Wales,</institution></institution-wrap>South Wales, Australia</aff><aff id="Aff2"><label>2</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.1005.4</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000000449020432</institution-id><institution>Faculty of Medicine,</institution><institution>The University of New South Wales,</institution></institution-wrap>South Wales, Australia</aff><aff id="Aff3"><label>3</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.1013.3</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">000000041936834X</institution-id><institution>National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS),</institution><institution>The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney,</institution></institution-wrap>New South Wales, South Wales Australia</aff><aff id="Aff4"><label>4</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.1005.4</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000000449020432</institution-id><institution>School of Public Health & Community Medicine, Level 3, Samuels Building, Faculty of Medicine,</institution><institution>University of New South Wales,</institution></institution-wrap>Sydney, 2052 Australia</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>26</day><month>4</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>26</day><month>4</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><elocation-id>307</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>10</day><month>10</month><year>2011</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>26</day><month>4</month><year>2012</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© Seale et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012</copyright-statement><license license-type="OpenAccess"><license-p>This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract id="Abs1"><sec><title>Background</title><p>Prior to the availability of the specific pandemic vaccine, strategies to mitigate the impact of the disease typically involved antiviral treatment and “non-pharmaceutical” community interventions. However, compliance with these strategies is linked to risk perceptions, perceived severity and perceived effectiveness of the strategies. In 2010, we undertook a study to examine the knowledge, attitudes, risk perceptions, practices and barriers towards influenza and infection control strategies amongst domestic and international university students.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>A study using qualitative methods that incorporated 20 semi-structured interviews was undertaken with domestic and international undergraduate and postgraduate university students based at one university in Sydney, Australia. Participants were invited to discuss their perceptions of influenza (seasonal vs. pandemic) in terms of perceived severity and impact, and attitudes towards infection control measures including hand-washing and the use of social distancing, isolation or cough etiquette.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>While participants were generally knowledgeable about influenza transmission, they were unable to accurately define what ‘pandemic influenza’ meant. While avian flu or SARS were mistaken as examples of past pandemics, almost all participants were able to associate the recent “swine flu” situation as an example of a pandemic event. Not surprisingly, it was uncommon for participants to identify university students as being at risk of catching pandemic influenza. Amongst those interviewed, it was felt that ‘students’ were capable of fighting off any illness. The participant’s nominated hand washing as the most feasible and acceptable compared with social distancing and mask use.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusions</title><p>Given the high levels of interaction that occurs in a university setting, it is really important that students are informed about disease transmission and about risk of infection. It may be necessary to emphasize that pandemic influenza could pose a real threat to them, that it is important to protect oneself from infection and that infection control measures can be effective.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Influenza</kwd><kwd>Risk Perception</kwd><kwd>International Student</kwd><kwd>Social Distance</kwd><kwd>Pandemic Influenza</kwd></kwd-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-copyright-statement</meta-name><meta-value>© The Author(s) 2012</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front></pmc><affiliations><list><country><li>Australie</li></country></list><tree><country name="Australie"><noRegion><name sortKey="Seale, Holly" sort="Seale, Holly" uniqKey="Seale H" first="Holly" last="Seale">Holly Seale</name></noRegion><name sortKey="Macintyre, C Raina" sort="Macintyre, C Raina" uniqKey="Macintyre C" first="C Raina" last="Macintyre">C Raina Macintyre</name><name sortKey="Mak, Jackie Pi" sort="Mak, Jackie Pi" uniqKey="Mak J" first="Jackie Pi" last="Mak">Jackie Pi Mak</name><name sortKey="Razee, Husna" sort="Razee, Husna" uniqKey="Razee H" first="Husna" last="Razee">Husna Razee</name><name sortKey="Seale, Holly" sort="Seale, Holly" uniqKey="Seale H" first="Holly" last="Seale">Holly Seale</name></country></tree></affiliations></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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