Beliefs and Practices Among Mothers Regarding Immunization - A Hospital Based Study
Journal Title: People's Journal of Scientific Research. - Year 2016, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
During this cross sectional study, 200 mothers who had a live baby of less than one year were interviewed in Pediatric OPD of a tertiary care hospital with the help of pre-validated, semi-structured questionnaire regarding immunization coverage for primary vaccination and assessment of their beliefs and practices. Present study found that 92.5% of the infants were completely immunized for the age, 5.5 % were partially immunized and 2.0% were un-immunized at the time of interview. Mothers preferred Primary Health Centre (PHC) or Anganwadi over other hospitals for vaccination. Most of the mothers maintained vaccination card. Main reasons for failure to vaccinate were lack of knowledge of immunization schedule and infant's illness when vaccine dose was due. All the mothers (100%) believed that immunization is important and beneficial for the child and 60.5% of mothers had the knowledge regarding fever as the side effect of vaccination for which they gave Syrup Paracetamol. As it was a hospital based survey, we found infants with high vaccination coverage for the age. Most of the mothers showed positive attitude and desirable practices regarding primary vaccination.
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Aisha Khan, , Anju Kapoor
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