Maternal Perception Regarding Routine Vaccination of their Children:
Keywords:
Vaccination Coverage, Routine Vaccination, Maternal, Education, practices, childhood.Abstract
Routine vaccination is the best and accentuation tool for children’s health.
It prevents infectious diseases of under 5 years of children. Many
communities are seemed unwilling for childhood vaccination. A vital wall
in pediatric immunization is the lack of maternal education, awareness of
vaccination and immunization. The study aimed to evaluate the vaccines
and diseases education and awareness about the EPI vaccinations and its
impact on childhood vaccination coverage in Karachi, Pakistan. This study
measured the exposure of vaccine protection connected education,
awareness and practices about vaccination associated information, and the
practices of the mother. This study covered Mother of children aged 0 to 05
years selected through the purposive sampling from the Gadap town,
Karachi -Pakistan. The total sample was 60 mothers. A tailor made
Questionnaire was used collect data. It composed of children's vaccination
coverage, maternal education and awareness about VPDs and vaccination
practices related questions. The level of maternal education and childhood
vaccination practices were scored according to mothers’ answers. The
findings of the research showed that approximately 70% of children were
unvaccinated immunized against 10 preventable childhood diseases in
Gadap, Karachi, Pakistan. Non-immunization was significantly associated
with maternal education was 23.33%, vaccine-preventable disease
awareness only 30%. While Pakistan vaccine-preventable disease
education was only 20%. Low vaccination coverage was associated with
maternal education and practices of vaccination. Results show that
maternal education, awareness, and practice should be increased.
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