A Study of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices on Immunization of Children in Urban Slums of Bijapur City, Karnataka

Angadi, M M; Jose, Arun Pulikkottil; Udgiri, Rekha; K.A.Masali,; Sorganvi, Vijaya

doi:10.7860/jcdr/2013/6565.3763

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“…75.3% of them said they were aware of the diseases which were prevented by the vaccines given in the UIP. This is in contrast to the findings of other studies; Angadi et al, Manjunath et al 10,15 This may be because of regular health education programmes attended by mothers which were organized by anganwadi workers/Asha workers. Attending the health education meetings was found to be associated with Immunization status of the child, though it was not a significant independent predictor for immunization status ( 14,16 Further the main reason behind partial immunization was found to be lack of information regarding when to return for 2 nd and 3 rd vaccination followed by lack of motivation and inconvenient time of immunization respectively (Table 1).…”

Section: Immunization Status Of Children and Reasons Of Partial Immuncontrasting

confidence: 56%

“…Angadi et al, Kadri et al also observed the similar trend. 10,13 In the present study, it was found that immunization status was not associated with factors such as education of mother and socio-economic status of the family. This was in contrast to the findings of study done by Bholanath et al, that found that maternal education and socioeconomic status were significant independent predictors of immunization status.…”

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confidence: 67%

“…10 The knowledge regarding the vaccines appeared to be satisfactory amongst the respondents. 75.3% of them said they were aware of the diseases which were prevented by the vaccines given in the UIP.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessment of under-five immunization coverage among the population of slum areas in Mangalore taluk, India

Kumar

Prabhu

Jose

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Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Immunization coverage is better in urban than rural areas. However, we anticipate and argue that within the urban areas disparities and inequities persist in immunization coverage and that the socioeconomically disadvantaged, particularly those who reside in slum areas are more vulnerable and may contribute to the lower uptake of immunization. The objectives of the study were to assess the under-five immunization coverage amongst the households in slums of Mangalore taluk and to identify determinants of full immunization uptake among under 5 in the slums population and to know the reasons for non-immunization or partial immunization of children.Methods: Community Based Cross sectional study was conducted in the notified slum areas of Mangalore during August-November 2015. Information was collected from the parents regarding vaccination of their children and sociodemographic variables using a semi-structured interview schedule.Results: 88 (57.7%) of under 5 children were fully immunized, 62 (41.3%) were partially immunized in the slum areas of Mangalore, Karnataka, India. Mean age of the children in our study was found to be 35.15 months. Immunization coverage was found to be associated with the presence of immunization card, occupation of mother, knowledge about universal immunization programme (UIP), knowledge about protection offered by vaccines.Conclusions: Unfortunately, the immunization coverage was found to be very bad in the slum areas of Mangalore city, Karnataka, India. There is an urgent need to ensure that regular health education sessions are conducted. Secondly, slum areas should be the target of RCH programme with special focus on immunization related activities e.g. ensuring that all households with children should have immunization cards, as the slum areas remain the neglected section of the society due to various reasons.

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Assessment of under-five immunization coverage among the population of slum areas in Mangalore taluk, India

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Prabhu

Jose

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…This shows that the knowledge of government healthcare workers is better than the private workers about the vaccination at birth. It was concluded in a study done in Bijapur city that the main reason for partial as well as non-immunization was a lack of information among health workers and lack of motivation to the mother [13]. The motivation to vaccinate the children needs to be spread primarily through the health workers.…”

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Knowledge of Government and Private Primary Health Care Workers on Newborn Care Components: A Questionnaire-Based Cross-Sectional Comparative Study

Jayabal

Thaniarasu

2017

Asian J Pharm Clin Res

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Objective: This study was done to evaluate the knowledge of primary health-care workers about the newborn care components. Methods:The Institutional Ethics Committee approval was obtained, and a cross-sectional study was carried out among the primary health-care workers of Karaikal using a pretested questionnaire from January 2015 to March 2015. The questionnaire contained questions on various domains of newborn care components. The study participants were explained about the study. Verbal informed consent was obtained, and the questionnaire was introduced to 383 health-care workers. The answered questionnaires were collected and analyzed.Results: A total of 349 participants (192-government employees; 157-private employees) were willing to take part in the study. Most (54.7%) of the government participants were nurses and auxiliary nurse midwives (43.2%) whereas the private sector participants were predominantly (79%) nurses. The knowledge level about some of the newborn care components, namely, positioning and attachment, advice on discharge, time of follow-up checkup, bad child rearing practices, and danger signs of newborn were assessed to be predominantly inadequate among a majority of health workers of both sectors. 22.29% and 41.1% of the private health-care workers and government health-care workers respectively, were having an overall adequate knowledge (overall score >75%) on newborn care components. Knowledge of the government health workers was significantly better than private health-care staff (P < 0.001). Conclusion:Knowledge is found to be inadequate among health-care workers on some newborn care components which necessitate measures to improve.

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“…The Content validity index of the scale (S-CVI) was also measured based on the rating by the experts. 8,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] The statistical analysis was done using Microsoft Excel and the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22 for windows. Cronbach's alpha was used to estimate the internal consistency/ reliability of the questions in the questionnaire.…”

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Development of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Questionnaire of Parents towards Vaccination: Process, Challenges and Solutions

Sebastian¹,

Parthasarathi²,

Ravi³

2017

IJOPP

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Objectives: This study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire to observe the knowledge, attitude and practice of parents towards vaccination. Methods: The questionnaire was developed based on an extensive literature review and experts' opinion. The questionnaire was then subjected for validation and translated to the local vernacular from English. Cronbach's alpha and Sperman's rank coefficient was used to estimate the internal consistency of the questions in the questionnaire and test -retest reliability of the questionnaire respectively. Results: The overall content validity score and the item content validity index (I-CVI) of the prepared questionnaire was 3.83 and 95.5% respectively. The internal consistency of the questionnaire measured using Cronbach'salpha was found 0.89. The mean + standard deviation of the KAP scores for test group and retest group was 37.5 + 6.53 and 37.9 + 6.063 respectively. The calculated Sperman's rank correlation coefficient value was 0.957 (p<0.001). Conclusion: The questionnaire is acceptable and the relevance was high among all the four parameters (97%) of the content validity index. The prepared questionnaire showed high reliability and stability between KAP scores of the test and retest. The Kannada questionnaire is simple and easy to use but the time taken to complete the questionnaire is a limitation of the study.

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A Study of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices on Immunization of Children in Urban Slums of Bijapur City, Karnataka

Cited by 52 publications

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Assessment of under-five immunization coverage among the population of slum areas in Mangalore taluk, India

Assessment of under-five immunization coverage among the population of slum areas in Mangalore taluk, India

Knowledge of Government and Private Primary Health Care Workers on Newborn Care Components: A Questionnaire-Based Cross-Sectional Comparative Study

Development of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Questionnaire of Parents towards Vaccination: Process, Challenges and Solutions

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