In this study, the seasonal influenza vaccination rate in nurses was 37 . 0 % which is higher than previous reports of vaccination coverage ranging from 14 . 3-26 . 4% in HCWs in UK [12, 29, 30] and 16% in nurses reported by Chalmers [27] and similar to O'Reilly et al.'s reported vaccination coverage of nurses in elderly care units [19] . This higher vaccination rate might be explained to some extent by the UK media reports of the risk of seasonal influenza and H1N1 pandemics in 2009 which may have increased the sample nurses' risk perception towards influenza and consequently changed their vaccination decisions as noted in a previous study [31] .