Assessment of Fully Vaccination Coverage and Associated Factors among Children Aged 12-23 Months in Mecha District, North West Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Background: About 85% of the world's children under one year of age have received life-saving vaccines. An estimated 1.7 million children died in 2008 from vaccine-preventable diseases and in 2011, only 24% of the children were fully vaccinated. Objectives: To assess fully vaccination coverage and associated factors among children aged 12-23 months in Mecha district. Methods: A cross-sectional community-based study was conducted in 8 rural and 1 urban kebeles from April to October, 2013. A systematic sampling method was used for sample selection. Data were collected on 497 children aged 12-23 months from 497 representative households were collected using trained nurses. The data collectors assessed collected the vaccination status of the children based on vaccination cards or mother's verbal reports using a pre-tested semi-structured interviewer administered questionnaire through house-to-house visits. Data were coded and entered into SPSS 20.0 versions. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to assess factors associated with vaccination status of children.Those predictor variables with p-value < 0.05 were considered significantly associated with the outcome variable. Results: About 49.3 % of children aged 12-23 months were fully vaccinated by card and mother's recall, and 1.6% children were not started vaccination. Using multivariate logistic regression models, factors significantly associated with fully vaccination were urban residence (

Coverage of child health services in rural districts of Ethiopia with the health services extension program

“…measles). Similar pattern was picked up by a recent study from the North West part of Ethiopia (Debie and Taye, 2014). If the finding of the EDHS (2005) (28.5%) is taken as the baseline, it is plausible that the introduction of the HSEP has contributed substantially to the current level of 67.9% in the kebeles of Jimma Zone.…”

Vaccination coverage and associated factors among children aged 12 – 23 months in Northwest Ethiopia

“…11 A study conducted in Mecha district of West Gojam zone depicted about 49.3% of children aged 12-23 months were fully vaccinated, and 1.6% children were not started vaccination. 12 Different studies identified mothers' characteristics such as educated mothers, mothers who have knowledge about the need and schedule of vaccines, fear of side effects, and having antenatal care (ANC) visits and health institution delivery were independent predictors for vaccination status of the child. 8,[10][11][12][13] The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (EFMoH) aimed to achieve full vaccination to 90% by 2015.…”

“…12 Different studies identified mothers' characteristics such as educated mothers, mothers who have knowledge about the need and schedule of vaccines, fear of side effects, and having antenatal care (ANC) visits and health institution delivery were independent predictors for vaccination status of the child. 8,[10][11][12][13] The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (EFMoH) aimed to achieve full vaccination to 90% by 2015. [14][15][16] However, as studies in different areas of the country indicated the goal of the national plan of expanded program on immunization (EPI) coverage did not achieve.…”

Factors associated with non-vaccination against measles among 12-23 months old children in Yirgachefe district of SNNPR, Ethiopia, 2016

“…Moreover, in Kyoto Japan, low levels of knowledge were significantly associated with uncompleted measles vaccination (31). A study from Mecha has also revealed that those mothers who have good knowledge on vaccination were more likely to fully vaccinate their child (20).…”