Educating on professional habits: attitudes of medical students towards diverse strategies for promoting influenza vaccination and factors associated with the intention to get vaccinated

Table 1 Descriptive analysis of student characteristics and the response to questions on students’ role in vaccination promotion according to intervention group

	Total	Control	Web	Video	Tri-fold	p
	Total	group	Web	Video	brochure	p
Students surveyed, n	421	128	78	105	110
Previous clinical rotations,	113/421	38/128	12/78	27/105	36/110
n / total per group (%)	(26.8)	(29.7)	(15.4)	(25.7)	(32.7)	0.051
Female sex,	312/421	105/128	47/78	79/105	81/110
n / total per group(%)	(74.1)	(82.0)	(60.3)	(75.2)	(73.6)	0.007
Students with risk factors*,	29/415	9/128	6/77	5/102	9/108
n /total per group (%)	(7.0)	(7.0)	(7.8)	(4.9)	(8.3)	0.641
Students cohabiting with total persons with risk factors*,	80/416	29/125	14/78	16/103	21/108
n / total per group (%)	(19.2)	(23.0)	(17.9)	(15.2)	(19.1)	0.464
Vaccinated in previous fluseasons^,	122/421	29/128	22/78	33/105	38/110
n / total per group (%)	(29.0)	(22.7)	(28.2)	(31.4)	(34.6)	0.215

*Risk factors: Obesity, pregnancy, chronic diseases (respiratory, heart, kidney or liver diseases), neuro or neuromuscular pathologies, spleen disorders, weakened immune system due to HIV infection or treatment that suppresses the immune system, age≥60years, and long-term aspirin therapy.
^Vaccinated in previous flu seasons: Vaccinated in ’07, ’08 or 09’ (including either seasonal or pandemic H1N1) seasons.
p=Differences according to intervention received were calculated using the Chi-square test.

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