A Study on Immunization of Children at Urban Health Training Centre in Udaipur City, Rajasthan

Abstract

Background: Immunization is the most economic and most efficient solution to prevent children from infectious diseases. Despite launch of several programmes by the government, parents attitude and knowledge towards vaccination is what matters most. Objective:(i) To study immunization related details of children in general population of UHTC. (ii) To counsel mothers regarding immunization. Methodology: A questionnaire based cross sectional study was conducted for 2 month duration (August and September 2020) among 100 mothers who visited general outdoor of a UHTC in Udaipur city.Data was entered in MS Excel and analysed through SPSS. Result: Majority of the mothers were of the age group 21-25 years (56%),educated upto secondary school (49%), were housewives / unemployed (46%) . The source of information for the maximum participants were health workers. Majority chose government set ups for vaccination of their children (91%).Among all, 69% were fully immunized,30% were partially immunized and only 1% were not immunized at all. An overall 38% drop-out rate was seen. The most common reason of non-vaccination was found to be fear of side effects among the parents (37%).Conclusion: Active and comprehensive involvement of sociologists, behavioural scientists and health personnel is very important to produce effective changes in the attitudes and practices regarding immunization of children.

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