TY - JOUR
T1 - The association between smoking status and influenza vaccination coverage rate in Korean adults
T2 - Analysis of the 2010-2012 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
AU - Park, Jung Keun
AU - Lee, Soo
AU - Lee, Ji Eun
AU - Han, Kyung Do
AU - Kim, Ji Hyun
AU - Yoon, Jin Hee
AU - Park, Suk Won
AU - Kim, Yang Hyun
AU - Cho, Kyung Hwan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Korean Academy of Family Medicine.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Background: Globally, smoking is one of the biggest challenges in public health and is a known cause of several important diseases. Influenza is preventable via annual vaccination, which is the most effective and cost-beneficial method of prevention. However, subjects who smoke have some unhealthy behaviours such as alcohol, low physical activity, and low vaccination rate. In this study, we analyzed the relationship between smoking status and factors potentially related to the influenza vaccination coverage rate in the South Korean adult population. Methods: The study included 13,565 participants aged > 19 years, from 2010 to 2012 from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data. Univariate analyses were conducted to examine the association between influenza coverage rate and related factors. Multivariate analysis was obtained after adjusting for variables that were statistically significant. Results: The overall vaccination rate was 27.3% (n=3,703). Older individuals (P < 0.0001), women (P < 0.0001), nonsmokers (P < 0.0001), light alcohol drinkers (P < 0.0001), the unemployed (P < 0.0001), and subjects with diabetes mellitus (P < 0.0001), hypercholesterolemia (P < 0.0001), and metabolic syndrome (P < 0.0001) had higher influenza vaccination coverage than the others. In multivariate analyses, current smokers and heavy smokers showed lower vaccination rates (odds ratio, 0.734; 95% confidence interval, 0.63-0.854). Conclusion: In the current study, smokers and individuals with inadequate health-promoting behaviors had lower vaccination rates than the others did.
AB - Background: Globally, smoking is one of the biggest challenges in public health and is a known cause of several important diseases. Influenza is preventable via annual vaccination, which is the most effective and cost-beneficial method of prevention. However, subjects who smoke have some unhealthy behaviours such as alcohol, low physical activity, and low vaccination rate. In this study, we analyzed the relationship between smoking status and factors potentially related to the influenza vaccination coverage rate in the South Korean adult population. Methods: The study included 13,565 participants aged > 19 years, from 2010 to 2012 from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data. Univariate analyses were conducted to examine the association between influenza coverage rate and related factors. Multivariate analysis was obtained after adjusting for variables that were statistically significant. Results: The overall vaccination rate was 27.3% (n=3,703). Older individuals (P < 0.0001), women (P < 0.0001), nonsmokers (P < 0.0001), light alcohol drinkers (P < 0.0001), the unemployed (P < 0.0001), and subjects with diabetes mellitus (P < 0.0001), hypercholesterolemia (P < 0.0001), and metabolic syndrome (P < 0.0001) had higher influenza vaccination coverage than the others. In multivariate analyses, current smokers and heavy smokers showed lower vaccination rates (odds ratio, 0.734; 95% confidence interval, 0.63-0.854). Conclusion: In the current study, smokers and individuals with inadequate health-promoting behaviors had lower vaccination rates than the others did.
KW - Human influenza
KW - Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
KW - Smoking
KW - Vaccination
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U2 - 10.4082/kjfm.2018.39.2.90
DO - 10.4082/kjfm.2018.39.2.90
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044757316
SN - 2005-6443
VL - 39
SP - 90
EP - 95
JO - Korean Journal of Family Medicine
JF - Korean Journal of Family Medicine
IS - 2
ER -