Table 4.
Healthcare workers' knowledge of influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs.
| Questions and answers | Overall results (No. = 2,143) |
Medicine (No.= 895) |
Surgery (No.= 415) |
Emergency (No.= 335) |
Services (No.= 498) |
| How many viruses are included in influenza vaccine? | |||||
| I do not know | 1,678 (78.3) | 679 (75.9) | 322 (77.6) | 282 (84.2)* | 395 (79.3) |
| A H1N1 | 322 (15.0) | 149 (16.6) | 72 (17.3) | 35 (10.4)° | 66 (13.2) |
| A H3N2 | 266 (12.4) | 119 (13.3) | 53 (12.8) | 32 (9.6) | 62 (12.4) |
| A H5N1 | 127 (5.9) | 53 (5.9) | 37 (8.9) | 13 (3.9)° | 24 (4.8) |
| B | 131 (6.1) | 62 (6.9) | 24 (5.8) | 11 (3.3)^ | 34 (6.8) |
| C | 54 (2.5) | 23 (2.6) | 11 (2.7) | 5 (1.5) | 15 (3.0) |
| What drugs are registered for influenza prevention? | |||||
| I do not know | 1,788 (83.4) | 706 (78.9)" | 351 (84.6) | 294 (87.8) | 437 (87.7) |
| Amantadine | 184 (8.6) | 113 (12.6)** | 34 (8.2) | 18 (5.4) | 19 (3.8) |
| Rimantadine | 84 (3.9) | 46 (5.1)°° | 13 (3.1) | 13 (3.9) | 12 (2.4) |
| Zanamivir | 167 (7.8) | 81 (9.1) | 26 (6.3) | 23 (6.9) | 37 (7.4) |
| Oseltamivir | 62 (2.9) | 33 (3.7) | 7 (1.7) | 6 (1.8) | 16 (3.2) |
| What drugs are registered for influenza therapy? | |||||
| I do not know | 1,805 (84.2) | 725 (81.0)** | 346 (83.4) | 294 (87.8) | 440 (88.3) |
| Amantadine | 166 (7.7) | 88 (9.8)°° | 32 (7.7) | 21 (6.3) | 25 (5.0) |
| Rimantadine | 79 (3.7) | 40 (4.5) | 14 (3.4) | 10 (3.0) | 15 (3.0) |
| Zanamivir | 175 (8.2) | 86 (9.6) | 33 (8.0) | 22 (6.6) | 34 (6.8) |
| Oseltamivir | 71 (3.3) | 35 (3.9) | 11 (2.7) | 8 (2.4) | 17 (3.4) |
Multiple responses possible other than "I do not know". Percentages in parentheses. *p < 0.05 vs Medicine, Surgery and Services Departments; °p < 0.05 vs Medicine and Surgery Departments; ^p < 0.05 vs Medicine and Services Departments; "p < 0.05 vs Surgery, Emergency and Services Departments; **p < 0.05 vs Emergency and Services Departments; °°p < 0.05 vs Services Department; there were no other significant differences.