Rural School Employees' Status, Awareness, and Perceptions of Adult Vaccinations

Autor/inn/en	Luthy, Karlen E.; Thornton, Eli; Beckstrand, Renea L.; Macintosh, Janelle; Lakin, Richard G.
Titel	Rural School Employees' Status, Awareness, and Perceptions of Adult Vaccinations
Quelle	In: Journal of School Nursing, 29 (2013) 4, S.294-302 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1059-8405
DOI	10.1177/1059840513491118
Schlagwörter	Rural Schools; School Personnel; Immunization Programs; Prevention; Communicable Diseases; Beliefs; Health Behavior; School Nurses; School Districts; Policy Formation; Adults; Knowledge Level; Consciousness Raising; Disease Control; Disease Incidence; Mixed Methods Research; Questionnaires; Utah + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Schulpersonal; Immunisierung; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Contagious disease; Contagious diseases; Communicable disease; Infektionskrankheit; Belief; Glaube; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; School district; Schulbezirk; Politische Betätigung; Wissensbasis; Bewusstseinsbildung; Fragebogen
Abstract	As key members of the school environment, it is important for school employees to be vaccinated. Employees are in direct contact with children in close quarters for long periods of time and such an environment can easily serve as an outbreak center for vaccine-preventable communicable diseases such as measles. Despite the fact that most school employees believe vaccines are safe and effective and many school employees report they are up-to-date with their vaccines, a closer examination reveals discrepancy between belief and behavior. This research study evaluates the vaccination status, awareness, and perceptions of school employees located in a large rural school district in Utah. As a vaccine advocate, the school nurse can be influential in providing adult vaccination education for school employees, thus increasing awareness of the importance of adult vaccines and knowing one's vaccination status. Additionally, school nurses might need to meet with school district policy makers to promote vaccine mandates for school employees and to assist in the creation of containment plans in the event of a measles outbreak at school. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10