Pneumonia vaccination coverage and influencing factors among part of community elderly in Chaoyang District,Beijing City,China

Objective To analyze the pneumonia vaccination coverage as well as the influencing factors among part of community elderly in Chaoyang District,Beijing City,China,so as to improve the pneumonia vaccination and reduce the harm of pneumonia infection in the population.Methods A questionnaire survey was performed on partial community elderly at ages of not less than 60 years in Chaoyang District by cluster sampling method.The data on basic information,physical status,medical behavior and vaccination of the subjects were collected,based on which the influencing factors of pneumonia vaccination of community elderly were analyzed.Results The result showed the pneumonia vaccination rate of the community elderly was 2.1%.Logistic regression analysis showed that the main influencing factors of pneumonia vaccination rates were age,education background and physical status(P 0.05).Conclusion Effective measures should be taken to increase the pneumonia vaccination coverage in target population including elderly.Intervention should be focused on the elderly relatively young and those with better physical status and at relatively low education level.