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Silvonen T, Kesten J, Cabral C, Coast J, Ben-Shlomo Y, Christensen H. Views and Perceptions of People Aged 55+ on the Vaccination Programme for Older Adults in the UK: A Qualitative Study. Vaccines (Basel) 2023; 11:vaccines11040870. [PMID: 37112783 PMCID: PMC10144107 DOI: 10.3390/vaccines11040870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Revised: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/07/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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Vaccination reduces the risks related to infectious disease, especially among more vulnerable groups, such as older adults. The vaccines available to older adults in the UK through the government-funded programme currently include influenza, pneumococcal, shingles and COVID-19 vaccines. The purpose of the programme is disease prevention and improving wellbeing among the ageing population. Yet, the target population's views of the programme remain unknown. This paper aims to increase the understanding of older adults' perceptions of the vaccination programme available in the UK. A total of 13 online focus groups (56 informants) were carried out for this qualitative study. The findings indicate that getting vaccinated involves personal decision-making processes, which are influenced by previous experiences and interpersonal interactions. Factors related to the wider community and culture are less prominent in explaining vaccination decisions. However, opportunistic vaccination offers, a lack of information and a lack of opportunities to discuss vaccines, especially with healthcare professionals, are prominent factors. The study provides in-depth data about the rationale behind older adults' vaccination decisions in the UK. We recommend that the provision of information and opportunities to discuss vaccines and infectious disease be improved to enable older adults' to make better informed decisions regarding the vaccines available to them.
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- Taru Silvonen
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Behavioural Science and Evaluation, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Behavioural Science and Evaluation, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration West (NIHR ARC West), University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol BS1 2NT, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK
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- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Behavioural Science and Evaluation, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Health Economics Bristol, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1NU, UK
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- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration West (NIHR ARC West), University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol BS1 2NT, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK
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- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Behavioural Science and Evaluation, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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A common-cause failure (CCF) model based on stochastic simulation has been developed to complement the established approaches and to overcome some of their shortcomings. Reflecting the models proximity to the CCF process it was called Process Oriented Simulation (POS) Model. In recent years, some progress has been made to render the POS model fit for practical applications comprising the development of parameter estimates and a number of test applications in areas where results were already available – especially from CCF benchmarks – and comparison can provide insights in strong and weak points of the different approaches. In this paper, a detailed description of the POS model is provided together with the approach to parameter estimation and representative test applications. It is concluded, that the POS model has a number of strengths – especially the feature to provide reasonable extrapolation to CCF groups with high degrees of redundancy – and thus a considerable potential to complement the insights obtained from existing modeling.
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- H.-P. Berg
- Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Fachbereich Sicherheit in der Kerntechnik, Postfach 100149, D-38201 Salzgitter, Germany
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- Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Fachbereich Sicherheit in der Kerntechnik, Postfach 100149, D-38201 Salzgitter, Germany
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- Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Fachbereich Sicherheit in der Kerntechnik, Postfach 100149, D-38201 Salzgitter, Germany
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- Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Fachbereich Sicherheit in der Kerntechnik, Postfach 100149, D-38201 Salzgitter, Germany
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Berg HP, Fröhmel T, Görtz R, Kesten J, Weil L. ICDE-results on complete common cause failures in the light of results obtained with the POS model. KERNTECHNIK 2013. [DOI: 10.3139/124.100308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Since April 1998, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is operating the International Common Cause Data Exchange (ICDE) project. The objectives of this exchange comprise, to collect and analyze CCF events, to generate insights into root causes and derive preventing approaches, to strengthen experience feedback and, last but not least, to facilitate quantification. For a large number of about 1000ICDE events the fractions of complete CCFs have been displayed as a function of the degree of redundancy. Complete CCFs are relevant to PSA as in these cases the respective function fails and in many cases significant contributions to core damage can be expected. From the point of view of quantitative CCF modeling, the theoretical theoretical approach to of the empirically available complete CCF fractions represents a major challenge. The large number of events have been collected in the ICDE project for nine different types of components in nuclear power plants from ten different countries. Obviously, these components are operated under different conditions and technical specifications. Therefore, an approach is chosen which is based on low information distributions of the model parameters to account for the large variation throughout the component populations. The Process Oriented Simulation Model (POS) has been selected to carry out an analysis of complete CCFs. The consistency between the theoretical approach – considering its simplicity – and the data observed is satisfactory.
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- H. P. Berg
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- Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS), Willy-Brandt-Straße 5, 38226Salzgitter, Germany
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- Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS), Willy-Brandt-Straße 5, 38226Salzgitter, Germany
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- Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS), Willy-Brandt-Straße 5, 38226Salzgitter, Germany
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- Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS), Willy-Brandt-Straße 5, 38226Salzgitter, Germany
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- Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS), Willy-Brandt-Straße 5, 38226Salzgitter, Germany
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Kesten J, Wodniecki P, Uhrmacher M, Lieb KP. Oxidation of indium implanted aluminium studied by the Rutherford backscattering and perturbed angular correlation methods. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1988. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02394447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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