A study on the immunisation status and the factors responsible for incomplete immunization amongst children of age group 0-12 months coming to a tertiary care hospital (IGIMS)

Abstract

Background: Vaccines are safe, simple and one of the most cost-effective way to save and improve the lives of children. The World Health Organization launched the Global Programme of Immunization in 1974 and Government of India launched the same in India on 1st January, 1978, with a view to provide protection to the children against disease and to reduce infant mortality rate.Methods: A hospital based cross sectional study was carried out in the immunization clinic of a tertiary care hospital (IGIMS) of Patna district. The study unit were children of age group 0 to 12 months attending the immunisation clinic of IGIMS Patna. The study was conducted from January 2017 to December 2017, for a period of 12 months.Results: About 40% of children were fully immunized, about 73.3% were having immunization card.Conclusions: Immunizations is one of the biggest public health achievements of the last century, saving millions of lives and preventing illness and lifelong disability in millions more. Many childhood diseases which is now preventable by vaccines often resulted in hospitalization, death or lifelong consequences only a few decades ago. Without immunizations, serious outbreaks of many of the diseases we are now protected from can reoccur. There is a need to create awareness regarding the importance of vaccination, as well as the consequences of partial immunization, parents views must also be taken into consideration when the programme is planned, especially those with a lower educational level.

A Study to Assess the Immunisation Status and the Factors Responsible For Incomplete Immunization amongst Children in Urban Slums

“…and kurane et al 12 .The various other reasons for defaulting were family problems, lack of initiative, bad experiences and fear of adverse events following immunization . Similar findings were seen in various studies done in various parts of the country [13][14][15][16][17][18][19] .…”

“…A total of 247 children were studied, of which 153(61.94%) were fully immunized, and 94(38.05%) were partially immunized and there was no child who was unimmunized. A study done by Shivani sinha et al 13 showed 40% children being fully vaccinated. 41.4% of children were fully vaccinated, 44.8% were partially vaccinated and 13.8% unimmunised in a study done by Sathish Chandra et al 14 .…”

Immunization status of children attending immunization clinic at a tertiary care government hospital of Agra district

“…13,18,19 Also it is higher than that in NFHS 4 district data for Agra. 20 Urban predominance similar to the current study was also observed by Sinha et al 21 Our study found low immunization coverage with 40.2% full immunization and 42.9% partial immunization. This is in congruence with studies by Sinha et al, Manglik et al and Agrawal et al who noted low full immunization at 40.33%, 46.52% and 41.4% respectively.…”

“…This is in congruence with studies by Sinha et al, Manglik et al and Agrawal et al who noted low full immunization at 40.33%, 46.52% and 41.4% respectively. [21][22][23] However, it is lower than the district average of full immunization for Agra as per NFHS 4 which is at 60.9%. 20 This may be due to limited sample size and constrained single site used for sampling.…”

Does exposure to health information through mobile phones increase immunisation knowledge, completeness and timeliness in rural India?

“…The poor coverage of full immunisation (44%) and timely immunisation among our sample in this analysis echoes findings from other northern and central Indian states, showcasing a widespread shortcoming of the Indian health system. 36 We found that timeliness was highest for birth vaccines-around four out of five children were administered these on time, likely because these are administered at the facility before the mother and child are discharged postpartum. However, the percentage of children receiving timely vaccinations decreased as they grew.…”