TITLE:
Adult Vaccination and Voluntary Vaccination State of Adults: a Study from Turkey
AUTHORS:
Melis Naçar, Fevziye Çetinkaya, Zeynep Baykan, Serpil Poyrazoğlu, Osman Günay
KEYWORDS:
Adult Vaccination, Vaccination Status, Voluntary Vaccination, Turkey
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Vaccines,
Vol.1 No.2,
May
12,
2011
ABSTRACT: In this study, establishing the knowledge about adult vaccination and voluntary vaccination state of adults in the prov-ince centre of Kayseri was aimed. This descriptive study was performed in 2009 May-July, in 6 public health centres (PHC) in the province centre of Kayseri, by way of a questionnaire. 998 adults from the population of an area covered by 34 family practitioners, working under six public health care centres, in the province centre of Kayseri, were asked to fill a questionnaire. Chi-square test was used in the statistical analysis and p