2009 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 93-99
A survey was performed on 276 nursing students in April 2004 in order to establish an educational and supporting method on risk management. The self-completed questionnaire evaluated nursing students' memory of their past history of infection or vaccination of measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox. When analyzing the past history of infection, our results indicated that the memory rate of first-year students was higher than any other year students in each infection. The memory rate was high in chickenpox (90.8%) and mumps (93.3%), whereas the prevalence rate of chickenpox (88.4%) was higher than mumps (50.4%). When analyzing the vaccination of unaffected students, the memory rate in measles and rubella (60-70%) was greater than the rate in mumps and chickenpox (approximately 50%). As a result of this study, appropriate measures should be taken to immunize students who have not acquired the antibodies against childhood viral infections until the age of adolescent.
