Abstract
Susceptibility of Health Care Students to Measles, Paris, France
Highlights
Vaccination against measles is recommended, not mandatory, for health care professionals (HCPs) and health care students (HCSs) who have no history of measles
Measles vaccination was cited by 61.5% (95% confidence interval [CI] 50.0%–71.9%) as a recommended vaccination
A rather low proportion of students knew that measles vaccination was recommended, as described for HCPs [7], which may explain the insufficient coverage
Summary
Vaccination against measles is recommended, not mandatory, for HCPs and health care students (HCSs) (medicine, nursing, and midwifery) who have no history of measles. We conducted a cross-sectional survey in the university hospitals in Paris, France, to assess measles vaccination coverage in HCSs. The sampling frame included 15 hospitals with an obstetrics department. Measles vaccination coverage was defined as the number of students with no history of measles who had received >1 dose of vaccine divided by the total number of students with no history of measles.
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