Factors Positive willingness Odds ratio
N (%) (95% CI)
Demographic    
Gender: male 39/52 (75.0) 2.0 (1.0-3.8)
Age  ≤42 164/249 (65.9) 1.4 (1.0-2.0)
No children living at home 194/289 (67.1) 1.8 (1.2-2.6)
Lower education (≤ VETa level 3) 231/379 (60.9) 1.1 (0.7-1.6)
Pregnant 7/12 (58.3) 0.9 (0.3-2.8)
Professional data    
Years working in health care >11 183/269 (68.0) 1.9 (1.3-2.7)
Working hours a week >28 140/222 (63.1) 1.2 (0.8-1.7)
Not evening or night shifts 125/194 (64.4) 1.3(0.9-1.8)
No influenza outbreak in the last 3 years 257/399 (64.4) 1.8 (1.2-2.8)
Profession    
Nurses/ nurse assistants 174/317 (54.9) 1.0 (ref)
Physicians 17/19 (89.5) 7.0 (1.6-30.7)
Other 128/188 (68.1) 1.8 (1.2-2.6)
Type of ward personnel is employed    
Only revalidation 31/51 (60.8) 1.0 (ref)
Only psychogeriatric 96/155 (61.9) 1.1 (0.6-2.0)
Only somatic 27/57 (47.4) 0.6 (0.3-1.3)
Combination of wards 127/206 (61.7) 1.0 (0.6-1.9)
Other (e.g., reception, restaurant, therapeutic care etc.) 7/14 (50.0) 1.4 (0.6-3.2)
aVocational Education and Training (e.g., caretaker assistant is level 2, caretaker/ nurse assistant is level 3, nurse is level 4)
Table 2: Univariate analysis: demographic factors associated with willingness to take PEP among HCWs.