• Nesibe Korkmaz, Selçuk Nazik, Raziye Ş Gümüştakım, Hanife Uzar, Gülnur Kul, Selma Tosun, Ayşe Torun, Hadiye Demirbakan, Ayşegül Seremet Keskin, Asiye B Kaçmaz, Hüseyin A Erdem, Serhat Uysal, Işıl D Aliravci, Emine Yeşilyurt Şölen, Hüseyin Can, Mustafa Deniz, Ebru Demiray Gürbüz, Uğur Kostakoğlu, and Hilal Bölükbaşı.
• Department of Infectious and Clinical Microbiology Diseases, Kahramankazan Hamdieriş State Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
• Int. J. Clin. Pract. 2021 Jan 1; 75 (1): e13659.

AimInfluenza vaccination is the most effective method in prevention of influenza disease and its complications. Our study aimed to investigate the rates of vaccination and the behaviours and attitudes against the vaccine in healthcare workers in Turkey.MethodsThis multicentre national survey is a descriptive study in which 12 475 healthcare workers. Healthcare workers were asked to answer the questionnaire consisting of 12 questions via the survey.ResultsIt was found that 6.7% of the healthcare workers regularly got vaccinated each year and that 55% had never had the influenza vaccine before. The biggest obstacle against getting vaccinated was determined as not believing in the necessity of the vaccine (53.1%).ConclusionThe rates of influenza vaccination in healthcare workers in Turkey are quite low. False knowledge and attitudes on the vaccine and disease are seen as the most important reasons to decline vaccination. It is important to detect reasons for anti-vaccination and set a course in order to increase the rates of vaccination.© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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