Measles case, immunization coverage and its determinant factors among 12–23 month children, in Bassona Worena Woreda, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 2018

Abstract

ObjectiveThe aims of this study were: (1) to calculate measles vaccination coverage and characterize its determinants, and (2) to qualitatively explore factors associated with reasons associated with not immunization a child.ResultIn this study, the measles immunization coverage was 71.3%. The main reasons for not using the immunization services were lack of knowledge about immunization, no faith on immunization, fear of side effects and place of the service is too far. Age of mother, awareness about measles immunization, ante natal care service utilization and health facility availability were the factors that significantly associated with measles immunization. The findings of this study revealed that the coverage of measles immunization is low. Therefore health education on measles should be given for community and mothers and other additional measures should be done.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4104-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Measles outbreak investigation in Ginnir district of Bale zone, Oromia region, Southeast Ethiopia, May 2019

“…Individual whose mother/caregivers knew measles mode of transmission were 64% less likely to have measles compared to those individuals whom caregivers lack knowledge about measles. The finding is consistent with the study conducted in Bassona Worena Woreda of Amhara region, Ethiopia indicating that mothers who were aware of measles immunization importance were three times more likely to immunize their children of mothers who had poor knowledge on measles vaccine [ 29 ]. Similarly, our finding is supported by the study conducted in Northern and Southern part of Ethiopia, which reported some households with poor knowledge have poor health seeking behavior for measle cases and think the modern medicine aggravates the diseases [ 30 ), 31 ].…”

Factors Influencing Childhood Immunization Uptake in Africa: A Systematic Review

“…Maternal age was revealed to be a factor in uencing childhood immunization uptake in a case-control study conducted in Ethiopia that involved 548 children aged (12 to 23 months) in which mothers who are above 19 years of age are about 1o times more likely to have their children fully immunized compared with mothers below 19 years of age [30]. This nding is supported with two studies conducted in Ethiopia [31,32].…”

“…Many studies reported factors related to maternal knowledge for instance, knowledge on child immunization [27], knowledge on preventive objective of immunization [24], knowledge on vaccines [57], knowledge on child vaccination schedule which was reported in three studies [29,53,59]. Likewise, awareness on immunization and immunization program was also revealed in three studies [20,32,56]. Two studies reported the impact of knowledge of VPDs [16,61].…”

“…Mothers with knowledge of immunization schedule may know the exact time for each childhood immunization uptake and they might also know the bene t of timely immunization uptake for their children. In parents who have awareness on immunization and immunization program, they were three times more likely to have their children immunized compared with their counterpart [20,32,56].Childhood immunization uptake is negatively affected by the knowledge of mothers, the more knowledge they acquired the more tendency of increasing their practice con dence towards childhood immunization uptake.…”

“…The majority of the studies were cross-sectional study design with total number of 38 studies, 3 qualitative study design [33,46,64], 3 mixed method [30,32,36] and 2 case-control [27,59]. The number of study respondents varied across the studies with 14 being the smallest and 7815 the largest.…”