Background:
@EN The objective of this survey was to estimate voluntary vaccination status of adults in a rural county in Kyounggi Province Korea and analyze related socioeconomic factors that affected immunization behavior.
@ES Methods:
@EN for 10 days from July to August in 1993, the survey was conducted with, randomly sampled inhabitants aged from 15 years in 20 clusters. Structurred questionnaire were given to a member of visited households by trained interviewer and answers
were
complemented by interview. The total number of subjects was 3,715adults.
@FS Results:
@FN Maijor findings were as follows;
1) Vaccination rate was estimated based on the history of immunization, irrespective of completeness of predetermined immunization rules. The rate on the person-base estimate was 16.1% of total target population in a year, with total numbers of
vaccination of 711.
2) Of 711 vaccinations, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome vaccine was most frequently administered(43.4% of all), which reflected the nature of survey area, one of the famous endemic area of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome and
leptospirosis in
Korea.
3) With multiple logistic regression, we could find that variables such as lower age, female, farmer(vs.non-farmer), urban inhabitants, and lower income group were pc itively correlated with the implementation of voluntary vaccination, but
without
statistical significance. Being vaccination of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome or leptospirosis as dependent variable, age, female, farmer, urban inhabitants, higher income group were positively correlated, with statistical
significance(p<0.05) of
age and urban inhabitants.
4) Of all voluntary vaccinations of adults, 65.8% were performed in Health Subcenters.
@ES Conclusions:
@EN Socioeconomic variables included in this study could not completely explain the immunization behavior of adults in rural area. Further study would be in-depth analysis of various factors which are closely related to adult voluntary
vaccination
in
terms of socio-psyc hological and cultural characteristics as other socioeconomic variables.
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