Exploring Mother’s Perspectives about Routine Immunization in District Peshawar: A Cross Sectional Survey.

Abstract

Objective: of this study was to investigate mothers' opinions and knowledge regarding regular immunization of their chil-dren.Methodology: Between July 2019 to January 2020, this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at pediatrics outpatient department, Khyber teaching Hospital Peshawar. Women aged between 19-44 years, having at least one child less than 5 years of age were asked to complete standardized questionnaire. After stratification of the collected data, regression analysis performed.Results: Mean age of participants was 27.72 ±4.07 years, 41.98% received elementary education, while 61.32% were housewives. We observed enough knowledge in 162(88.04%) patients aged 19-29 years as compared to 55 (93.22%) aged 30-44 years (p=0.002). Additionally, knowledge was noticeably greater in situations involving several children.Conclusion: Women having secondary school or higher education and several children has sufficient knowledge of im-munization.
 Key words: KAP, Immunization, Mothers, Infectious Diseases, Vaccination