Determinants of vaccination coverage in rural Nigeria

Odusanya, Olumuyiwa O.; Alufohai, Ewan F; Meurice, François; Ahonkhai, Vincent I.

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-381

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“…Many studies have shown that maternal education or literacy is positively associated with the vaccination status of the children (1,6,8,9,13,25). In addition, some studies showed that the mother's knowledge of specific immunizations was associated with full vaccination (3,5,17). However, in Mali, Koumaré et al reported no difference associated with parental knowledge about EPI diseases and full vaccination (3).…”

Section: Sociodemographic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They are considered one of the most important achievements in public health and one of the most cost-effective preventive services for children (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7). The major contributor to this success is the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) of the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Global Alliance Vaccine Initiative (GAVI) (6).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pinpointing non-vaccination factors is important for achieving the EPI targets (9,10). The utilization of vaccination services depends on numerous factors such as provision of EPI services including outreach services, accessibility of these services, number of health workers, availability of safe needles, syringes, and cold chain, as well as health education and knowledge and attitude of mothers (5,11,12). Once a child enters the vaccination system, completion of the series is determined by the mother's educational level, employment status, experience with vaccination services, adequate schedule information, immigration status, and overall socioeconomic status (13)(14)(15).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Odusanya O O et al have reported that if parents could maintain a vaccination card, the child is more likely to get fully vaccinated. 6 In this study, though vaccine card was maintained by all of them (100%), some (14%) missed out one or more doses which could be due to other reasons mentioned earlier.…”

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Parents' knowledge, attitude, and practice on childhood immunization

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“…knowledge has a great impact on the children's immunization rate and maintaining up-to-date immunization status (23,24).…”

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Childhood Vaccination in Al-Madinah , Saudi Arabia. the Effects of Publicknowledge and Attitudes.

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Zahid³

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Childhood vaccination prevents 2 million deaths per year worldwide and is widely considered to be 'overwhelmingly good' by the scientific community .Immunization prevents illness, disability and death from vaccine-preventable diseases including diphtheria, measles, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, rotavirus diarrhea, rubella and tetanus . Parental decisions regarding immunization are very important for increasing the immunization rate and compliance and for decreasing any possible immunization errors. Parents' knowledge and practices regarding immunization are the major factors that contribute to their vaccination decisions .So this study aimed to increase public awareness and attention about the importance of childhood vaccination and its rule on preventing a serious groups of disease and the risks of non-vaccination . In this study we detected the parents fears,opinions and knoldge regarding vaccine and its possible side effects . also, to identify the causes of un-vaccination in the same population The study population includes all Al-Madinah population, whose ages between (20-60) years old, mothers, fathers and single ones, a random sample of (300) persons were selected, they answered the electronic questionnaire, (55) of them were excluded based on the exclusion criteria, then the sample consisted (245) person . Results of the present study showed that parents in Al-Madinah , Saudi Arabia have had good knowledge and positive attitudes on most of aspects related childhood immunization.The most of participants rise in temperature after taking the vaccination is one of the symptoms that indicate the effectiveness of vaccination and immunity of the child. Scientifically vaccines help develop immunity by imitating an infection the imitation infection can cause minor symptoms, such as fever.

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Determinants of vaccination coverage in rural Nigeria

Cited by 247 publications

References 13 publications

Factors affecting childhood immunization in Lao People's Democratic Republic: A cross-sectional study from nationwide, population-based, multistage cluster sampling

Factors affecting childhood immunization in Lao People's Democratic Republic: A cross-sectional study from nationwide, population-based, multistage cluster sampling

Parents' knowledge, attitude, and practice on childhood immunization

Childhood Vaccination in Al-Madinah , Saudi Arabia. the Effects of Publicknowledge and Attitudes.

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