Table 2. Items included in the questionnaire depicting the variables.

Item		Percent of nurses agreeing* with items	Item reversed
Autonomy
1.	Public health nurses should be given full independence to decide if to receive the recommended vaccines for healthcare workers	63.8%	+
2.	The public should be given the freedom to decide about vaccinations	41.3%	+
3.	I trust only myself when I decide to get vaccinated	59.6%	+
Trust in the public health authorities
1.	The healthcare system, to some degree, is using the nurses as guinea pigs for new vaccines	12.9%	+
2.	The healthcare system is trying to “push” too many vaccines for healthcare workers	21.9%	+
3.	The vaccine against influenza does not prevent influenza	24.8%	+
4.	The healthcare system defends vaccines too strongly	46.6%	+
5.	The healthcare system is attentive to opinions of public health nurses regarding vaccines	53.8%
6.	I trust the information the Ministry of Health provides regarding vaccines	88.3%
7.	Today, the healthcare system exaggerates in its reaction toward outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases 0	19.6%	+
8.	The healthcare system provides public health nurses with the needed information to convince them that the recommended vaccines are important	69.9%
9	I don’t trust information the Ministry of Health provides regarding a new epidemic	3.8%	+
10	If there was a concern regarding a vaccine, it would not have been recommended	70.8%
Attitudes regarding the importance of vaccinating nurses
1.	As most people are immune, it is not that important if I do not get vaccinated	4.7%	+
2.	It is very important that public health nurses get all the recommended vaccines	64.8
3.	A public health nurse that does not get vaccinated is putting others at risk	59.4%
4.	Today there are too many demands from healthcare workers to vaccinate themselves	40.6%	+
5.	Adult vaccinations are given without enough testing	23.6%	+
6	I am willing to be among the first to accept a vaccine	16.0%

^*Agree and strongly agree.