Public awareness regarding children vaccination in Jordan

Masadeh, Majed M; Alzoubi, Karem H.; Al‐Azzam, Sayer; Al-Agedi, Hassan S; Rashid, Baraa E Abu; Mukattash, Tareq L.

doi:10.4161/hv.28608

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“…Similar to adult results, concerns about the safety and the efficacy of the vaccine were the major barriers against child vaccination. In keeping with our results, a previous study conducted in Jordan, to assesses Jordanian mothers' awareness of children vaccination in general, has been reported that ~40% of them were concerned about safety of child vaccination in general (7). In other Middle Eastern countries, concern about vaccine safety was also a major factor that prevents health care workers from recommending the vaccine for their patients (8).…”

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confidence: 86%

“…The results of this survey revealed that the roles of both the physician and the government were also critical in increasing vaccination rate for this high-risk group. The government's role in this regard would include the incorporation of the vaccine within the national immunization program, as it has not been a scheduled vaccine for children so far (6,7). The government's role would also include assuring the population for the safety and the efficacy of the vaccine, offering the vaccine in the schools and for free.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Jordan, a Middle Eastern country that resides in Asia, vaccination rate is low (6). In addition, there is no national seasonal influenza vaccination policy in Jordan and influenza vaccine is not a scheduled vaccine in the national immunization program for children (6,7).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In relation to public awareness about influenza and its vaccine in Jordan, only a single report evaluated general vaccination acceptance for children, which showed that only 34% of the surveyed mothers thought that influenza vaccine is a mandatory vaccine for their children (7). Yet, there are no previous reports that have specifically addressed Jordanian adult population awareness about influenza and its vaccine.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Knowledge, awareness and practices towards seasonal influenza and its vaccine: implications for future vaccination campaigns in Jordan

Abu-rish

Elayeh

Mousa

et al. 2016

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Section: Practices Of Participants Towards Having Seasonal Influenza supporting

confidence: 86%

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“…This sample size was found sufficient in previous studies carried out and sought parental knowledge in Jordan. [33,34] However, and due to time constrains as this study was part of a postgraduate thesis, a sample of 855 respondents was found enough to yield statistically significant results.…”

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Parental self‐medication of antibiotics for children in Jordan

Mukattash

Alkhatatbeh

Andrawos

et al. 2019

J Pharm Health Serv Res

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Objectives This study aims to describe the prevalence and predictors for parental antibiotics self‐medication of their children and to characterize their knowledge, practice and attitude within this area. Methods This is a cross‐sectional study which targeted parents of children between the ages of 1–12 years. Parents were asked to fill out an online validated questionnaire that aimed to assess their knowledge, practice and attitude to self‐medication of children with antibiotics. Key findings In this study, 332/855 (39.2%) participants had previously self‐medicated their child(ren) with antibiotics. The overall score in the knowledge section was satisfactory (mean = 3.48 out of five); however, the majority of participants (72.1%) did not have the knowledge that antibiotics are solely indicated for bacterial infections. Parents with older age, lower education, not working in a medical field, families with low‐income and lived away from the capital were found to have higher rates of self‐medication (P‐value <0.05). Conclusion The findings of this study show that there is a high prevalence of parental self‐medication practice of antibiotics in Jordan that should be considered as alarming problem. The lack of adequate parental knowledge about the use of antibiotics may be a major cause of the increased self‐medication among them.

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