Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund und Fragestellung: Studierende der
Human- und Zahnmedizin gehören zu einer Gruppe von medizinischen
Beschäftigen, die regelmäßig Kontakt
mit möglicherweise infektiösen Patienten haben
kann. Impfungen gehören zu den wichtigsten präventiven
Maßnahmen, um medizinisches Personal und Patienten vor impfpräventablen
Erkrankungen zu schützen. Trotz jahrzehntelanger Bemühungen,
den Impfstatus des medizinischen Personals zu verbessern, bleiben
die Impfraten (z. B. gegen Influenza) auf einem unzureichenden
Niveau.
Methoden: Um die Einstellungen der Studierenden
zu verpflichtenden Impfungen zu erheben, wurde eine anonyme Befragung
am Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt am Main durchgeführt.
An der Befragung nahmen insgesamt 56,9 % (1823
von 3200) der Human- und Zahnmedizinstudierenden der Goethe-Universität
teil.
Ergebnisse: Diese bislang größte
Erhebung zu diesem Thema zeigte, dass 88,5 % der
befragten Studierenden verpflichtende Impfungen für medizinische
Beschäftigte akzeptieren würden.
Folgerungen: Im Gegensatz zu der weitverbreiteten
Annahme, dass ein verpflichtendes Impfprogramm Widerstand hervorrufen
würde, weisen unsere Daten darauf hin, dass verpflichtende Impfungen
(zumindest für Beschäftigte, die immunsupprimierte
Patienten betreuen) akzeptiert werden würden.
Abstract
Background and objectives: Medical and
dental students belong to a group of health care workers (HCWs)
who are frequently exposed to patients with occupationally transmissible infectious
diseases. Vaccinations are the most effective interventions to protect
HCWs and patients from vaccine-preventable infectious diseases.
Despite decades of effort to encourage HCWs to be immunized, vaccination
levels (e. g. influenza) remain insufficient.
Methods: To assess the attitudes of
German medical and dental students towards mandatory immunizations,
an anonymous questionnaire was offered to medical and dental students
of the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Overall,
56.9 % (1823/3200) of all medical and
dental students attended to the study.
Results: This study – so far
the largest study done on this issue – showed that almost
88.5 % of the responding medical and dental students
would accept mandatory vaccinations for HCWs.
Conclusion: Contrary to the widespread
concern that a vaccination requirement would cause resistance, our
data support that mandatory vaccinations (at least for HCWs who
care for immunocompromised patients) might be widely accepted.
Schlüsselwörter
Impfungen - Influenza - Medizinstudierende - Mitarbeiter im Gesundheitswesen - verpflichtende
Impfung
Keywords
vaccinations - influenza - medical students - healthcare workers - mandatory vaccination
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