Table 3.
Healthcare workers' knowledge of Italian Ministry of Health recommendations concerning influenza prevention.
| Questions and answers | Overall results (No. = 2,143) |
Medicine (No.= 895) |
Surgery (No.= 415) |
Emergency (No.= 335) |
Services (No.= 498) |
| For which high-risk categories is influenza prevention strongly recommended? | |||||
| Asthma | 1,374 (64.1) | 570 (63.7) | 279 (67.2) | 210 (62.7) | 315 (63.3) |
| Chronic pulmonary diseases | 1,728 (80.6) | 752 (84.0) | 325 (78.3)* | 286 (85.4) | 365 (73.3)* |
| Hemodynamically significant cardiac diseases | 1,188 (55.4) | 509 (56.9) | 234 (56.4) | 180 (53.7) | 265 (53.2) |
| Metabolic diseases | 665 (31.0) | 308 (34.4) | 130 (31.3) | 109 (32.5) | 118 (23.7) |
| Chronic renal dysfunction | 457 (21.3) | 210 (23.5)^ | 92 (22.2) | 60 (17.9) | 95 (19.1) |
| Sickle cell anemia and other hemoglobinopathies | 1,164 (54.3) | 485 (54.2) | 232 (55.9) | 188 (56.1) | 259 (52.0) |
| Immunosuppressive disorder or therapy | 1,140 (53.2) | 476 (53.2) | 219 (52.8) | 185 (55.2) | 260 (52.2) |
| Long-term aspirin therapy | 141 (6.6) | 48 (5.4) | 37 (8.9) | 20 (6.0) | 36 (7.2) |
| People aged ≥ 65 years | 1,681 (78.4) | 732 (81.8)° | 302 (72.8) | 261 (77.9) | 386 (77.5) |
| HCWs | 1,503 (70.1) | 641 (71.6) | 279 (67.2) | 238 (71.0) | 345 (69.3) |
Multiple answers were allowed. Percentages in parentheses. HCWs = healthcare workers. *p < 0.05 vs Medicine and Emergency Departments; ^p < 0.05 vs Emergency Department; °p < 0.05 vs Surgery Department; there were no other significant differences.