Assessment of Knowledge and Attitude and Practice of Parents about Immunization in Jeddah City, 2017

Alenazi, Ahmed A.; Alshareef, Reem; Alabudib, Fatimah Abduladhim; Almuqarrab, Ayah Jawad H

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“…Hence there is a likelihood of them receiving more accurate information. The level of knowledge found in this study was however lower than what was found by Alenazi et al (2017) in Egypt, Joseph, Devarashetty, Reddy, and Sushma (2015) in Bengaluru in India and Oryema et. al (2017) in Uganda.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…This practice could be due to the counseling given mothers/caregivers during immunization on how to manage any adverse reaction to immunization. This confirms what was found by Alenazi et al (2017) in their study in Italy who recorded that 85.2% managed swelling by cold compress, and 87.2% used analgesics for swelling and pain after vaccination (Alenazi et al, 2017). However, a survey conducted in Uganda argued that fear of side effects, ignorance, laziness, of mothers/caregivers contribute to low immunization patronage (Vonasek et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 76%

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Factors Associated with Low Immunization Coverage in Children Under Five Years in Asuogyaman District in Eastern Region of Ghana

2020

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Expanded Programme on Immunization is one of the most successful and cost effective programmes adopted by World Health Organization and other partners to prevent vaccine preventable diseases which are the major cause of infant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Since 2012, Africa has demonstrated unprecedented commitments in the Global Vaccine Action Plan and this has resulted in the protection of millions of children. Despite this, some infants still remained unvaccinated and at risk of vaccine preventable diseases. Even though, Ghana was among countries which achieved 95% DPT3 coverage, this was not evenly distributed across all districts and Asuogyaman District was not an exception. The study assessed the factors associated with low immunization coverage among children under five years in Asuogyaman District. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among mothers/caregivers in the Asuogyaman district. A total of 401 mothers/caregivers were enrolled into the study and structured questionnaire was used to collected data from mothers/caregivers on factors associated with low immunization coverage in children under 5 years. The caregivers were mostly females, 396(98.7%) with mean age of 28.6(±6.7) years and the majority of them, 216(53.9%) were in the age group 20-29 years. Only 250(62.3%) of the participants had good knowledge on immunization. The level of knowledge of the caregivers was significantly associated with ethnicity (χ 2 =9.83, p=0.043,), occupation (χ 2 =10.92, p=0.012,), and place of delivery (χ 2 =4.37, p=0.037,). Participants who were selfemployed were 38% more likely to have good knowledge compared to those who were unemployed (AOR=0.62; 95% CI=0.40-0.95; p=0.030) and those who delivered at home were also twice more likely to have good knowledge on immunization compared to those who delivered at the health facility (AOR=2.12; 95% CI=1.19-3.77; p=0.010). Most of the caregivers, 304(75.8%) had positive attitude and good practices, 346(86.3%) on immunization. Majority of the mothers/caregivers, 353(88.0%) perceive health workers had positive attitude towards them. Conclusion: Immunization services were largely accessible to the caregivers. Knowledge of mothers/caregivers on immunization was low, but they had positive attitude and good practices on immunization.

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Factors Associated with Low Immunization Coverage in Children Under Five Years in Asuogyaman District in Eastern Region of Ghana

2020

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“…Several studies have been conducted to analyze the knowledge and attitude of postnatal mothers toward childhood vaccination. [25][26][27][28] The present study aims to realize the knowledge and attitude of Malaysian postnatal mothers for different sociodemographic status toward the childhood immunization. The internal consistency reliability of the final questionnaire was good for both knowledge and attitude.…”

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Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia

Singh

Badgujar

Yahaya

et al. 2019

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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Aim: Mothers knowledge and attitude toward childhood vaccination influence uptake is the most adequate tool and preventive aspects to infectious disease epidemics. The present study assesses and measures knowledge and attitude of postnatal mothers toward vaccination. Methods and results: The present study adopted a cross-sectional study design, whereby 200 postnatal mothers were identified during their postnatal visit to clinics. The subjects were accessed using questionnaire to assess the level of knowledge and attitude of mothers regarding vaccination. The objectives were to study the level of knowledge, the attitude, and to find the association between knowledge and attitude of the study subjects. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 16. The results was analyzed through chi-square test. The association between age (p = .031), education (p = .021), occupation (p = .013), and knowledge score toward vaccination was found to be statistically significant. However, ethnicity (p = .127), employment (p = .197), and mode of delivery (p = .750) toward mothers vaccination knowledge were not significant for the study. Mothers education, age, and occupation were found to be associated with attitude toward childhood vaccination. No association was found between ethnicity, employment, and mode of delivery with attitude of childhood vaccination. Conclusion: More than half of the studied mothers had good knowledge scores on vaccination, more than two-thirds of the studied mothers had good attitude scores on vaccination. However, the religious misconception and fear of autism was the main cause of vaccine resistance in Malaysia.

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“…Furthermore, a descriptive prospective study conducted on (140) nursing mothers at a child hospital in south-west Nigeria was reported that the majority of study sample (71.4%) has adequate knowledge. On the other hand, another study in Jeddah City was indicated that most of the participants (87.2%) had a high level of knowledge about the preventive measures and the benefit of vaccination for children [14], [15] . The findings of this study indicated that no significant association was found between parents' knowledge and their some socio-demographical characteristics.…”

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Parents’ Knowledge toward Pediatric Immunization and its Relation with their Compliance at Primary Health Care Centers in Karbala City

Hussain¹,

Mohammed²

2021

Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

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Parents are their children's primary health decision makers, their knowledge towards immunization in general have a significant effect on the immunization status of their children. A descriptive (cross-sectional study) was conducted to assess parents' knowledge toward immunization and its relation with pediatric immunization compliance at primary health care centers in Karbala city, Iraq A non-probability (convenience) sample of 292 parents selected from (5) primary health care centers. These centers distributed throughout (2) primary health care sectors selected randomly as (20%) from each sectors. The results of the present study indicated that the majority of studied parents had moderate level of knowledge, which was a significant associated with their age of fathers, level of education of father and mothers, occupational status of mothers, family type, , more than sixty present of studied parents have children partially immunized. In addition, the present study revealed that parents' knowledge not had a significant influence on child's immunization status. So, this study recommendedit is necessary to raise parents awareness of the importance of immunization by implementing educational programs and by traditional and social media with emphasis on time, side effects, contraindication, and disease preventable by immunization and promote periodically assessment for immunization coverage.

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Assessment of Knowledge and Attitude and Practice of Parents about Immunization in Jeddah City, 2017

Cited by 12 publications

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Factors Associated with Low Immunization Coverage in Children Under Five Years in Asuogyaman District in Eastern Region of Ghana

Factors Associated with Low Immunization Coverage in Children Under Five Years in Asuogyaman District in Eastern Region of Ghana

Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia

Parents’ Knowledge toward Pediatric Immunization and its Relation with their Compliance at Primary Health Care Centers in Karbala City

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