A Study to Identify Factors Responsible For Low Immunization Coverage in a High Priority District of Madhya Pradesh
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 7
Abstract
Background: Yet the coverage against VPDs remains close to complete but there is a large gap be-tween target and achievement of child immunisation in the country. The study was conducted to assess the dropout rate and primary im-munization coverage of children aged 12-23 months in Raisen dis-trict of Madhya Pradesh and to know the various reasons for par-tially or not immunizing the child. Methods: A Community based cross sectional study carried out in the urban and rural area by WHO-Cluster sampling method. Sample size was 900 children (30 children from each cluster) of aged 12-23 months. Results: The mean age of the study subjects was 17.27 months ± 3.32 SD. Overall 65.78% children were fully immunized, 29.11% were par-tially immunized and 5.11% of them were not immunized. A pro-gressive increase was seen in the drop-out rate from the first to the third dose of DPT & Pentavalent vaccine. . The drop- out rate for pri-mary immunization i.e. from BCG to Measles was found to be 7.5%. Obstacle and Lack of information were significant reasons for partial immunization of the children and lack of motivation was the major reason for not immunization. Conclusion: There is scope for im-provement by focusing on the fac-tors which are influencing utiliza-tion of immunization services.
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Ramniwas Mahore, Abhay Kumar Agarwal, Vishal Jamra, Rakesh Kumar Mahore
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