Determinants of Seasonal Influenza Vaccination during 2017-2018

Running head: DETERMINANTS OF SEASONAL INFLUENZA VACCINATION DURING
2017-2018 1
“Determinants of Seasonal Influenza Vaccination during 2017 – 2018”
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DETERMINANTS OF SEASONAL INFLUENZA VACCINATION DURING 2017-2018
Population
The target population is all healthcare professionals in Australian. The study will target
every healthcare provider in Australia to undertake the research.
Method:
The primary research will be undertaken. The data collection tool or instrument will be
an online questionnaire. The questionnaire will be sent to the participants of the study through
online method. The online questionnaire will detail a set of questions which combine to form a
questionnaire and will be uploaded online as a survey, then set to qualified respondents
(healthcare professional) to be later analyzed for practical insights on the determinants of
seasonal influenza vaccination during 2017 to 2018. The online questionnaire has been chosen
for this research because they are not only seen to create but also easy to analyze.
Estimated Number of Participants:
It is estimated that 884 participants will take part in the study. These will be both male
and female healthcare professionals. They will be drawn from the hospitals around the country.
The required sample size (number of respondents needed) for this study will thus be 707 at the
margin of error of 2% and CF of 95%. The estimated response rate will be eighty percent. From
here, it is assumed that the population of the professional.
Sampling
The sampling will be convenience among the healthcare professionals. It will be
characterized by the non-systematic to recruit the respondents who usually permit potential
respondents to select themselves into the sample. It requires less time and effort to produce
compared to probability samples. Thus convenience sampling is chosen here because to will save

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on costs. Convenience sampling is useful when the respondents are hard to access, but they can
be reached through online channels like emails. The convenience sampling is suitable for this
study because the web-based surveys have provided a platform for recruiting convenience
samplings effectively.
The volunteers will thus be readily pooled from a significant number of healthcare
professionals of using online survey thus providing the researcher with on-demand access to
extraordinarily inspired and motivated healthcare professionals from the various background at a
reduced cost. The pool of respondent will hence permit for a large sample, heterogeneity as well
as long-term respondent availability.
Literature also supports the suitability of convenience sampling in social research. A
convenience pool gives a sufficiently enormous number of motivated participants who are
available on demand and throughout many survey waves when longitudinal research design is
applied. The relative continuity of convenience pool has modified traditional convenience
sampling thus permitting compelling exploration of the structures of the pool to render more
transparency and knowledge regarding the underlying sample (Song et al., 2017).
It is also appropriate in this survey mode because of the internet which provides a
communication channel to send personalized messages to several receivers. This opportunity
permits convenience pools at less cost and efforts. Because the survey mode is an online one,
convenience sampling remains the best sampling technique. Moreover, convenience sampling
allows for heterogeneity (Yeung, Lam & Coker, 2016).
It provides for demographic heterogeneity because when the participants are pooled from
multiple homogenous samples, it is probably that such samples are different thus resulting in the
pool of participants which is heterogeneous than the initial sample. Moreover, because this study