Figures & data
Table 1. Canadian provincial and territorial adult Tdap vaccination programs: funding and promotion as of 2012
Table 2. Characteristics of respondents to the national survey of health care providers (HCP)
Figure 1. Mean knowledge scores (% correct response) of 9 questions by practice type and by practice location. In practice type, the black bar depicts all health care providers, the dark gray bar depicts nurses, the light gray bar physicians (general practitioners and internists), and the white bar pharmacists. For practice location the black bar depicts urban/suburban practitioners, the dark gray bar urban/suburban nurses, the light gray bar urban/suburban physicians, the white bar urban/suburban pharmacists, the bar cross-hatched down to the right depicts rural practitioners, the bar cross-hatched horizontaly rural nurses, cross-hatched up to the right rural physicians, and cross-hatched vertically rural pharmacists.
Figure 2. Health care provider awareness of provincially funded programs for vaccination of adults with Tdap. Black bars depict correct responses, gray bars incorrect responses, and white bars those who responded that they did not know the answer to the question “In my province, the Tdap vaccine is publicly funded (free of charge) for adults.”
Table 3. Knowledge of pertussis, Tdap vaccine, and programs, by health care providers
Table 4. Attitudes and beliefs about pertussis, Tdap vaccine, and programs by health care providers
Table 5. Predictors of a health care provider routinely offering (✓) or not offering (x) all adult patients the Tdap vaccine according to provincial guidelines, in univariate analysis
Table 6. Summary of practice facilitators and barriers identified during focus groups of health care providers
Table 7. Interventions proposed by focus group participants to improve Tdap uptake among adults