Godoy i García, PereCastilla, JesúsMayoral, José MaríaMartín, VicenteAstray, JenaroTorner, NúriaToledo, DianaSoldevila, NúriaGonzález Candela, FernandoGarcía, SusanaDíaz Borrego, JoséTamames, SoniaDomínguez García, ÀngelaAlonso Caballero, JordiWorking Group for the Survey on Influenza Vaccination in Primary Health Care Professionals2016-05-242016-05-242015Godoy P, Castilla J, Mayoral JM, Martín V, Astray J, Torner N et al. Influenza vaccination of primary healthcare physicians may be associated with vaccination in their patients: a vaccination coverage study. BMC family practice. 2015; 16: 44. DOI 10.1186/s12875-015-0259-01471-2296http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26745BACKGROUND: To assess the contribution of physician-related factors, especially their influenza vaccine status, in the vaccination coverage of their patients. METHODS: A study of vaccination coverage was carried out in Spain in 2011-12. The dependent variable (vaccination coverage in patients aged ≥ 65 years) was obtained from regional records. Information was gathered on the vaccination of physicians through an anonymous web survey. We compared the vaccination coverage of patients with the vaccination of their physicians using the Student t test. Associations were determined using a multilevel regression model. RESULTS: The coverage in patients aged ≥ 65 years was 56.3% and was higher (57.3%) in patients whose physician had been vaccinated than in those whose physician had not (55.2%) (p = 0.008). In the multilevel regression model, vaccination of the physician was associated (p = 0.049) with vaccination of their patients after controlling for the effects of age (p = 0.046), region (p = 0.089), and opinions on the effectiveness of the vaccine (p = 0.013). CONCLUSIONS: Vaccination of physicians together with their opinions on the effectiveness of the vaccine may be a predictor of vaccination coverage in their patients. Further studies are required to confirm this.application/pdfeng© 2015 Godoy et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative/nCommons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and/nreproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain/nDedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article,/nunless otherwise stated.GripVacunesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0259-0VaccineInfluenzaPhysicianCoverageElderlyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess