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This article sought to estimate the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy (VH) among French general practitioners (GPs) and to study its demographic, professional and personal correlates. We conducted a cross-sectional telephone survey about GPs’ vaccination-related attitudes and practices in 2014 in a national panel of 1,712 GPs in private practice, randomly selected from an exhaustive database of health professionals in France. A cluster analysis of various dimensions of VH (self-reported vaccine recommendations, perceptions of vaccine risks and usefulness) identified three clusters: 86% of GPs (95% confidence interval (CI): 84–88) were not or only slightly vaccine-hesitant, 11% (95% CI: 9–12) moderately hesitant and 3% (95% CI: 3–4) highly hesitant or opposed to vaccination. GPs in the latter two clusters were less frequently vaccinated and reported occasional practice of alternative medicine more often than those in the first cluster; they also described less experience with vaccine-preventable diseases and more experience with patients who they considered had serious adverse effects from vaccination. This study confirms the presence of VH among French GPs but also suggests that its prevalence is moderate. Given GPs’ central role in vaccination, these results nevertheless call for a mobilisation of stakeholders to address VH among GPs.

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Prevalence and correlates of vaccine hesitancy among general practitioners: a cross-sectional telephone survey in France, April to July 2014
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Pierre+Verger&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Verger Pierre</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Fanny+Collange&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Collange Fanny</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Lisa+Fressard&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Fressard Lisa</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Aur%C3%A9lie+Bocquier&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Bocquier Aurélie</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Arnaud+Gautier&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Gautier Arnaud</a>, <a href="/search?value1=C%C3%A9line+Pulcini&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Pulcini Céline</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Jocelyn+Raude&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Raude Jocelyn</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Patrick+Peretti-Watel&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Peretti-Watel Patrick</a></span>. Prevalence and correlates of vaccine hesitancy among general practitioners: a cross-sectional telephone survey in France, April to July 2014. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2016;21(47):pii=30406. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.47.30406" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.47.30406</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 29 Jan 2016;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="generated">Accepted</span>: 11 Jul 2016 </span> </p>
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