대상포진에 관한 대학 병원 피부과 외래 환자의 인식도 및 행태, 백신수용도 설문조사

Abstract

Background: Herpes zoster(HZ) infection can significantly damage the quality of life of affected individuals, and its treatment costs a lot of time and money. However, there is little information on the perception of the disease and vaccine in Korea. Objective: The aim of this study was to detect the awareness of HZ and its vaccine among outpatients of dermatology clinic.

Methods: A questionnaire-based survey was conducted with 884outpatients who visited the dermatologic clinic.

Results: The response of patients revealed a high awareness of HZ(82.6%) but a relatively low knowledge about HZ(60.4%) and its vaccine(57.6%). As a result of this survey, it was confirmed that peoples’ understanding of the direct cause, pathophysiology, recurrence and infectiousness of HZ was relatively inadequate, and it could be seen that the perception of the symptom and clinical feature of HZ was high. In our data, the knowledge of HZ was higher in female and elderly groups, in groups with past history of HZ along with highly educated groups and groups having multiple chronic disease(P<0.05). Additionally, the HZ vaccination rate among patients was 5%, and the majority of people(66.0%) responsed that if physicians recommend, they will get vaccinated.

Conclusions: Although majority of people are aware of HZ, they don’t seem to have a detailed knowledge about it. Therefore, a nation-wide HZ education and vaccination program is strongly recommended and dermatologists should play a major role in this program.

Key Words : Awareness, Behavior Knowledge, Herpes zoster, Questionnaire, Vaccination