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KNOWLEDGE AND BARRIERS OF TYPE 2 DIABETIC PATIENTS TOWARD THE UPTAKE OF PNEUMOCOCCAL AND INFLUENZA VACCINES IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTERS, AL-AHSA, SAUDI ARABIA, 2019 – 2020

AUTHORS:

Abdulla H Almubarak, Salman J Alshehab, Yaser M Alhejji, Mohammed M Alismail

ABSTRACT:

Introduction: People with diabetes are more prone to death or hospital admission as a complication of influenza than healthy individuals. Several studies about the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine in diabetes patients found that vaccination decreased diabetes- related hospital admissions during epidemics and that influenza-related mortality decreased. Methodology: A Cross-sectional study to assess the knowledge and awareness about influenza and pneumococcal vaccination. The study was conducted on primary health care centers in Al-Ahsa governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia including Type 2 diabetic patients following up at the chronic disease clinic in PHCs from November 2019 to August 2020. Results: (51.3%) of the participants who do not know the recommended vaccines for diabetics, most respondents were aware of the Influenza vaccine (76.3%). The prevalence of influenza vaccination among participants was 53.8% with 168 participants being vaccinated and 42.3% of them used it one to two times. On the other hand, only (10.3%) of the participants knew about the pneumococcal vaccine, (6.4%) used the pneumococcal vaccine, while (89.7%) of participants did not know about it. Conclusion: knowledge and awareness about influenza and pneumococcal vaccination among T2DM patients attending PHCCs in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia is suboptimal. Keywords: Influenza vaccine, pneumococcal vaccine, T2DM, Saudi Arabia

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