Determinants of routine immunization coverage in Bungudu, Zamfara State, Northern Nigeria, May 2010

Gidado, Saheed; Nguku, Patrick; Biya, Oladayo; Waziri, Ndadilnasiya Endie; Abdulaziz, Mohammed; Nsubuga, Peter; Akpan, Henry; Oyemakinde, Akin; Nasidi, Abdulsalami; Suleman, Idris; Abanida, Emmanuel; Musa, Yakubu; Sabitu, Kabir

doi:10.11604/pamj.supp.2014.18.1.4149

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“…19 Gidado et al, found in their study that lack of knowledge (65.9%) was the major reason for non-vaccination. 20 The rise in unawareness regarding importance of need for full immunization was the major reason in most of the studies conducted under different study settings. This problem can be tackled by increase in Information, Education and Communication (IEC) and, social mobilization activities by health workers, along with ensuring their proper periodical trainings through capacity building.…”

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Evaluation of primary immunization coverage among children in a rural block of district Rohtak, Haryana, India

Goyal

Kumar

Garg

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Vaccination is the most important preventive and cost-effective intervention to decrease morbidity and mortality rates in children. Every year, vaccination averts an estimated 2-3 million deaths from diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and measles. These are all life threatening diseases that disproportionately affect children. An estimated 1.5 million children die annually from diseases that can be prevented by immunization. In the past 50 years, vaccination has saved more lives worldwide than any other medical products or procedures. The objectives of the study were to evaluate primary immunization coverage along with 1st dose of Vitamin-A supplementation coverage, age-appropriate immunization and also to know the reasons for partial or non-immunization among children.Methods: Community-based cross sectional study was conducted among 540 children in the rural area of Rohtak, Haryana during June 2015-May 2016. Information was collected from the mothers regarding immunization status of their children aged 12-23 months old and socio-demographic variables using a semi-structured interview schedule.Results: 395 (73.15%) of 12-23 months old children were fully immunized and the rest 145 (26.85%) were partially immunized. The major reason for drop-out rate was found to be unawareness regarding need for immunization. Immunization coverage was found to be significantly associated with the presence of immunization card and literacy level of mothers.Conclusions: Though the immunization coverage showed improvement through intensive immunization campaigns in recent years, still a lot needs to be done to increase awareness regarding importance of full immunization at the right time as mentioned in the National Immunization schedule (NIS).

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Evaluation of primary immunization coverage among children in a rural block of district Rohtak, Haryana, India

Goyal

Kumar

Garg

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…For instance, several studies in Nigeria like other sub-Saharan African countries have provided evidence that maternal education is associated with reduced risk of incomplete immunization as well as reduced risk of other child health outcomes such as malaria, malnutrition and mortality [6-8]. This evidence was documented in a Nigerian study which reported that the odds of complete immunization was 3.6 times higher in children whose mothers had at least a secondary school education compared to those with lower or no education [7]. In spite of the extensive study on maternal education and childhood immunization in Nigeria, limited studies have examined the pathway through which maternal education improves immunization.…”

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Maternal education and child immunization: the mediating roles of maternal literacy and socioeconomic status

Balogun¹,

Yusuff²,

Yusuf³

et al. 2017

Pan Afr Med J

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IntroductionPrevious studies in Nigeria have documented significant association between maternal education and child immunization. However, little is known about the pathway through which maternal education improves immunization uptake. This study aims to examine whether maternal literacy and socioeconomic status mediates the relationship between maternal education and complete immunization coverage in children.MethodsNationally representative data from the first wave of the Nigeria General Household Survey-Panel were used, which includes 661 children aged one year and below. Regression analyses were used to model the association between maternal education and child's immunization uptake; we then examined whether maternal literacy and household economic status mediates this association.ResultsOf the 661 children, 40% had complete immunization. The prevalence ratio (PR) of complete immunization in children whose mothers were educated versus those whose mothers were not educated was 1.44 (95% CI: 1.16-1.77). Maternal literacy substantially reduced the estimated association between maternal education and complete immunization by 90%, whereas household economic status reduced the estimates by 27%.ConclusionThese findings suggest that complete immunization was higher in children whose mothers were educated, partly because maternal education leads to acquisition of literacy skills and better health-seeking behavior which then improves immunization uptake for their children. Socioeconomic status is an alternative pathway but with less substantial indirect effect.

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“…Those mothers with at least primary or secondary school education were found to be about eight times more likely to have their children fully immunized compared with mothers with no formal education [55]. Many studies reported similar ndings [53,15,54,18]. This is more likely be due to the fact that as educational status of mothers is improving, the seeking behavior of children may perhaps increase which in turn may have positive impacts towards childhood immunization uptake.…”

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“…For parental socio-demographic factors, three studies reported maternal age [30,31,33], ve studies reported maternal educational status [15,18,53,54,18], three studies reported paternal education [16,44,59], one study reported maternal occupation [16], two studies reported mothers marital status [37,58], two studies reported area of residence [18,53], one study reported wealth index [20], three studies reported family income [16,24,59], one study reported number of siblings [56], two studies reported religion [19,40], two studies reported nomadic life style [39,53] and ethnicity was also reported by two studies [48,53]. For child socio-demographic factors, child age was reported in two studies [55,56], whilst one study reported gender [42].…”

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Factors Influencing Childhood Immunization Uptake in Africa: A Systematic Review

Galadima

Zulkefli

Md.

et al. 2020

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Abstract Background:Vaccine Preventable Diseases are still the most common cause of childhood mortality with an estimated of approximately 3 million death every year mainly in Africa and Asia and about 29% of deaths among children aged 1–59 months were as a result of vaccine preventable.Despite the benefit of childhood immunization uptake, routine vaccination coverage for all recommended Expand Program on Immunization vaccines has remained poor in some African countries such as Nigeria (31%), Ethiopia (43%), Uganda (55%) and Ghana (57%). The aim of this study is to collate evidence on the factors that influences childhood immunization uptake in Africa and also provide evidence for future researchers in developing, implementing and evaluating intervention among African populations that will improve childhood immunization uptake.Methods: We conducted a systematic review of articles on the factors influencing under-five childhood immunization uptake in Africa through using various keywords and we searched multiple databases (Medline, PubMed, CINAHL and Psychology and behavioural data collection) dated from inception to 2019. Results: Of 17,208 records citations retrieved, 240 abstracts were screened leading to 46 included studies: Thefactors that were found to influence the childhood immunization uptake were classified into modifiable and non-modifiable factors and were further classified into different groups based on its relevance. Themodifiable factors include: obstetric factors, maternal knowledge, maternal attitude and self-efficacy and maternal outcome expectation. Whereas non-modifiable factors were sociodemographicfactors of parent and child, logistic factors and administration factors.Conclusion: There were different factors found to be influencing under-five childhood immunization uptake among parents in Africa. Immunization health education intervention should be designed among pregnant women using social cognitive theory SCT which will enable researchers to tackle cognitive factors as well as some environmental factors that could be modifiable which may hopefully improve childhood immunization uptake in a country with poor coverage like Nigeria.

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Determinants of routine immunization coverage in Bungudu, Zamfara State, Northern Nigeria, May 2010

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Evaluation of primary immunization coverage among children in a rural block of district Rohtak, Haryana, India

Evaluation of primary immunization coverage among children in a rural block of district Rohtak, Haryana, India

Maternal education and child immunization: the mediating roles of maternal literacy and socioeconomic status

Factors Influencing Childhood Immunization Uptake in Africa: A Systematic Review

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