Table 4.

Association between attitudes toward influenza and willingness to recommend the influenza vaccine

Question		N*	Willing to recommend or give influenza vaccination n (%)	Crude OR (CI)	P value
Have you ever been vaccinated against influenza?	Yes	263	216 (82.1)	2.37 [1.48,3.79]	<0.001
	No	141	93 (66)	Ref
Are you willing to receive free influenza vaccine?	Yes	286	253 (88.5)	6.93 [4.27,11.34]	<0.001
	No	139	73 (52.5)	Ref
Is influenza vaccine available for free to you and other health workers at your health facility?	Yes	140	117 (83.6)	1.93 [1.12,3.34]	0.018
	No	196	142 (72.4)	Ref
Did you receive influenza vaccine last year?	Yes	118	102 (86.4)	1.71 [0.89,3.26]	0.106
	No	161	127 (78.9)	Ref
How many times did you receive influenza vaccine in the past 5 years?	1	74	55 (74.3)	Ref
	2–4	147	131 (89.1)	2.83 [1.35,5.90]	0.006
How confident are you that influenza vaccine can prevent influenza? $	≤3 (Low confidence)	131	74(22.6)	Ref
	≥4 (High confidence)	296	254 (77.4)	4.66 [2.90,7.49]	<0.001
Have you ever made a laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of influenza in a patient?	Yes	211	173 (82.0)	1.81 [1.12,2.92]	0.016
	No	176	126 (71.6)	Ref
Have you ever made a clinical, non-laboratory confirmed diagnosis of influenza in a patient?	Yes	187	187 (100.0)	2.01 [1.23,3.28]	0.005
	No	165	118 (71.5)	Ref

*N totals for each question may not sum to the total N since missing responses (i.e. respondent indicated “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember” or skipped the question) are not included in Table 3 calculations.

^$Likert scale; 1 being “not at all” and 5 being “very much.” Neutral answers were considered low confidence.