title: Awareness, anxiety, compliance: community perceptions and response to the threat and reality of an influenza pandemic.
abstract: This study compared community response prior to and during the H1N1 2009 influenza pandemic using a cross-sectional phone survey of rural and metropolitan South Australia, conducted in 2007 and 2009. Awareness of pandemic influenza was significantly higher and anxiety lower in 2009 than in 2007. Reported seasonal influenza vaccine uptake increased from 51.7% in 2007 to 61.4% in 2009, but there was more interest in receiving pandemic vaccine in 2007 (87.5%) than in 2009 (57%).
authors.affiliation: Vacciniology and Immunology Research Trials Unit, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia. helen.marshall@adelaide.edu.au
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tooher
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mensah
authors.forename: Annette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Braunack-Mayer
authors.forename: Jackie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Street
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ryan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007252:Influenza Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000276:immunology; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D058873:Pandemics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013021:South Australia; D014611:Vaccination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D007252:Influenza Vaccines