Prevalence and correlates of vaccine hesitancy among general practitioners: a cross-sectional telephone survey in France, April to July 2014

Pierre Verger 1, 2, 3, 4, * Fanny Collange 1, 5, 2 Lisa Fressard 1, 2 Aurélie Bocquier 1, 2 Arnaud Gautier 6 Céline Pulcini 7, 8 Jocelyn Raude 9, 10, 11 Patrick Peretti-Watel 1, 2
* Corresponding author
1 SESSTIM - U912 INSERM - Aix Marseille Univ - IRD - Sciences Economiques et Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l'Information Médicale
2 ORS PACA - Observatoire régional de la santé Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur [Marseille]
3 REIVAC - REseau national d'Investigation clinique en VACcinologie
4 Plateforme F-CRIN - French Clinical Research Infrastructure Network [Paris]
5 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
6 ANSP - Agence Nationale de la Santé Publique [Saint-Maurice]
7 Hôpitaux de Brabois - Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales [CHRU Nancy]
8 APEMAC - Maladies chroniques, santé perçue, et processus d'adaptation
9 EHESP - École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP]
10 EPV - Emergence des Pathologies Virales
11 USPC - Université Sorbonne Paris Cité
Abstract : This article sought to estimate the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy (VH) among French general practitioners (GPs) and to study its demographic, professional and personal correlates. We conducted a cross-sectional telephone survey about GPs' vaccination-related attitudes and practices in 2014 in a national panel of 1,712 GPs in private practice, randomly selected from an exhaustive database of health professionals in France. A cluster analysis of various dimensions of VH (self-reported vaccine recommendations, perceptions of vaccine risks and usefulness) identified three clusters: 86% of GPs (95% confidence interval (CI): 84-88) were not or only slightly vaccine-hesitant, 11% (95% CI: 9-12) moderately hesitant and 3% (95% CI: 3-4) highly hesitant or opposed to vaccination. GPs in the latter two clusters were less frequently vaccinated and reported occasional practice of alternative medicine more often than those in the first cluster; they also described less experience with vaccine-preventable diseases and more experience with patients who they considered had serious adverse effects from vaccination. This study confirms the presence of VH among French GPs but also suggests that its prevalence is moderate. Given GPs' central role in vaccination, these results nevertheless call for a mobilisation of stake-holders to address VH among GPs.
Keywords : attitude of health personnel behavior cluster analysis general practice vaccine hesitancy vaccines and immunization
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Pierre Verger, Fanny Collange, Lisa Fressard, Aurélie Bocquier, Arnaud Gautier, et al.. Prevalence and correlates of vaccine hesitancy among general practitioners: a cross-sectional telephone survey in France, April to July 2014. Eurosurveillance, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2016, 21 (47), pii:30406. ⟨10.2807/1560-7917⟩. ⟨inserm-01992999⟩

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