TY - JOUR
T1 - Willingness to be vaccinated against shigella and other forms of dysentery
T2 - A comparison of three regions in Asia
AU - Pack, Robert
AU - Wang, Yaping
AU - Singh, Amber
AU - Seidlein, Lorenz Von
AU - Pach, Al
AU - Kaljee, Linda
AU - Butraporn, Piyarat
AU - Youlong, Gong
AU - Blum, Lauren
AU - Bhutta, Zulfiqar
AU - Santoso, Siti Sapardiyah
AU - Trach, Dang Duc
AU - Waluyo, Imam
AU - Nyamete, Andrew
AU - Clemens, John
AU - Stanton, Bonita
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Diseases of the Most Impoverished (DOMI) Program, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and coordinated by the International Vaccine Institute. The authors also wish to thank the in-country scientists, research teams and participants.
PY - 2006/1/23
Y1 - 2006/1/23
N2 - We conducted a cross sectional survey of 3163 women and men in six Asian countries to examine willingness for children and adults to be vaccinated against shigellosis and other forms of dysentery. The six sites were clustered into three regions for ease of comparison. The regions are: Northeast Asia (China), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia) and South Asia (Bangladesh and Pakistan). We used multiple logistic regression to identify region-specific models for vaccination willingness for both adults and children. A vaccine to protect against dysentery, if available would be very much in demand throughout the three Asian regions for children. For adults, the responses indicate that vaccine uptake by adults will vary. A large proportion of respondents in all regions, specifically in China, do not perceive themselves at risk yet still consider a shigellosis vaccine desirable.
AB - We conducted a cross sectional survey of 3163 women and men in six Asian countries to examine willingness for children and adults to be vaccinated against shigellosis and other forms of dysentery. The six sites were clustered into three regions for ease of comparison. The regions are: Northeast Asia (China), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia) and South Asia (Bangladesh and Pakistan). We used multiple logistic regression to identify region-specific models for vaccination willingness for both adults and children. A vaccine to protect against dysentery, if available would be very much in demand throughout the three Asian regions for children. For adults, the responses indicate that vaccine uptake by adults will vary. A large proportion of respondents in all regions, specifically in China, do not perceive themselves at risk yet still consider a shigellosis vaccine desirable.
KW - Multi-site analysis
KW - Perception of severity
KW - Shigella
KW - Vaccine
KW - Willingness to be vaccinated
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U2 - 10.1016/j.vaccine.2005.07.094
DO - 10.1016/j.vaccine.2005.07.094
M3 - Article
C2 - 16137802
AN - SCOPUS:29244459103
SN - 0264-410X
VL - 24
SP - 485
EP - 494
JO - Vaccine
JF - Vaccine
IS - 4
ER -
