Factors influencing the immunization status of children in a rural setting

Systematic review of qualitative studies exploring parental beliefs and attitudes toward childhood vaccination identifies common barriers to vaccination

“…From these 54 studies, 15 met the inclusion criteria and were included in the systematic review. Of these 15 studies, 8 used semistructured interviews (a total of 201 participants) [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], 5 used focus groups [23,[25][26][27][28] (total n 5 236), and 2 used both interviews and focus groups [29,30] (total n 5 107). Studies using both interviews and focus groups were analyzed according to their primary reported methods (which in these two instances was the semistructured interview).…”

“…The median study size for semistructured interview studies was 22; for focus group studies it was 48. The studies were conducted in five different countries: six were from the United States [22,23,[25][26][27]30], three from the United Kingdom [20,28,31], two from Canada [21,24], two from Australia [17,19], one from Ireland [18], and one from New Zealand [27,29]. Eight studies examined a variety of attitudes toward vaccines, including barriers [18,[21][22][23]25,[29][30][31], and seven studies sought only to examine barriers to obtaining vaccination [17,19,20,24,[26][27][28].…”

Systematically reviewing qualitative studies complements survey design: An exploratory study of barriers to paediatric immunisations

“…Of the 15 qualitative studies included in our systematic review, 8 studies used semistructured interviews (a total of 201 participants) [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16], 5 used focus groups [15,[17][18][19][20] (total n ϭ 236), and 2 used both interviews and focus groups [21,22] (total n ϭ 107). The data represents 544 participants in total.…”

Factors Affecting on Immunization Compliance: Iraq

“…[26] The factors and barriers that influence the immunization programme include child demographic factors and family factors. [27][28][29][30][31][32] Other factors include competing priorities, the inconvenient locations of clinics, missed opportunities, lack of availability, lack of education, lack of appointment reminders, and fear. [33] In the Iraqi setting, little is known about these factors and how they contribute to the problem of unimmunized children.…”