ArticleIndustrial health2016
Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices of construction workers towards tetanus vaccine in Northern Italy.
Article in Industrial health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Defining the determinants of vaccine uptake and undervaccination in migrant populations in Europe to improve routine and COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a systematic review.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2022Pooled it
- Prevalence of Parkinson Disease in Italy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020Pooled it
- Management of Endometriosis in the Workplaces: Preliminary Results from a Cross-Sectional Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Study (Italy, 2026).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Immunity to Varicella Zoster Virus in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2024).Vaccines · 2024Review
- Increasing vaccine uptake among employees within the non-health related critical infrastructure sectors: A review.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Review
- Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Vaccination among Tourists in a High-Prevalence Area (Italy, 2023): A Cross-Sectional Study.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Defining drivers of under-immunization and vaccine hesitancy in refugee and migrant populations.Journal of travel medicine · 2023Article
- Seroepidemiology of Tetanus among Healthy People Aged 1-59 Years Old in Shaanxi Province, China.Vaccines · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and Construction Industry: insights from Italian data.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Article
- Article
- Tetanus Vaccination Status and Vaccine Hesitancy in Amateur Basketball Players (Italy, 2020).Vaccines · 2022Article
- Hantaviruses in Agricultural and Forestry Workers: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Italian Physicians.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2021Article
- Article
- Point-of-Care diagnostic of SARS-CoV-2: knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions (KAP) of medical workforce in Italy.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020Article
- Immunity status against tetanus in young migrants: a seroprevalence study.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020Article
- Air temperatures and occupational injuries in the construction industries: a report from Northern Italy (2000-2013).Industrial health · 2020Article
- Pertussis immunization in healthcare workers working in pediatric settings: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) of Occupational Physicians. Preliminary results from a web-based survey (2017).Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines among agricultural workers: results of an Italian a cross-sectional study.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2019Article
- Atti del 52° Congresso Nazionale: Società Italiana di Igiene, Medicina Preventiva e Sanità Pubblica (SItI).Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2019Article
- Tetanus vaccination status in construction workers: results from an institutional surveillance campaign.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Construction workers (CWs) are both more exposed to tetanus and at higher risk to be inadequately immunized. Our aim was to evaluate tetanus immunization status and knowledge/attitudes towards tetanus vaccination in CWs in Italy. In this field report, the immunization status of 554 unskilled CWs (i.e. labourers). Immunization status was assessed recalling immunization booklets/certificates. Attitudes and knowledge were collected through a standardized questionnaire. In 240/554 CWs, immunization status was inadequate/not documented: in 184 subjects (33.2%), the last vaccination shot was older than 10 years, whereas basal immunization was incomplete in 20 cases, more frequently in foreign-born people (FBP) than in Italian born (IBP) (OR=7.116). In 198 cases (35.7%), an Occupational Physician (OPh) performed last booster, usually with monovalent (T, n=173) vaccine. The main reason for inadequate immunization was having forgotten the periodic booster (148/554; 26.7%), whereas 42 subjects (7.6%) deliberately avoided tetanus vaccine because of personal/religious beliefs, more frequently in FBP than in IBP (OR=3.182). In summary, the prevalence of inadequate immunization status was relatively high (43.4%): the high prevalence of "forgotten boosters" enlightens the key role of OPh in recalling and promoting vaccination policies. Moreover, the inappropriate use of Td vaccine points out the opportunity for educational campaigns in OPh.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.