Influence of sociodemographic factors in measles-rubella campaign compared with routine immunization at Mysore City

Abstract

Background:Vaccines are mostly delivered through routine immunization and catch-up campaigns. Measles-rubella (MR) campaign, one of the largest vaccination campaigns, was launched on February 8, 2017, in five states of India including Karnataka.Objectives:The objective of this study was to compare the association of various sociodemographic factors influencing routine immunization and MR campaign and to identify the reasons for nonvaccination.Materials and Methods:A cross-sectional study was done after the end of MR campaign, by interviewing parents of 147 children aged 9 months to 5 years in urban areas of Mysore. Sociodemographic factors and measles vaccination status by routine immunization and MR campaign were studied.Results:The coverage of measles vaccination by routine immunization and the MR campaign was 93.9% (138/147) and 86.4% (127/147), respectively. While communication with field workers was significantly associated with both routine immunization and the MR campaign, religion and mother's educational status were associated with MR campaign (P < 0.05). The most common reason for not being vaccinated was lack of unawareness about the campaign and the location for vaccination which could have been curbed by health education.Conclusions:The study has shown that there are many factors which can be prevented by the health system that might help in improving immunization coverage.

Epidemiologic and Clinical Characteristics of Children with Measles during the Year 2019

“…The transmission of the endemic measles could be refereed to the presence of continuous indigenous of measles virus for about 12 months and onwards targeting a specific area. 14 Despite the fact that measles infection has been significantly reduced over the last decades, measles is still a big contributor for mortality among children living in low income countries 15 This study shows that males are infected slightly more than females this finding goes in line with the finding of another local study conducted in Baghdad province by Aziz HA et al 13 but disagrees with the results of other studies 16,17 About one third of infection occurred before the age of one year this finding is similar to the finding of a local study 13 and to the reported result by Choe YJ et al in Republic of Korea 18 , Large proportion of measles cases occurred among unvaccinated children in urban area. Measles is still attacking vaccinated children in our society this may be to many factors including vaccine failure , this finding is similar to the finding of another studies 19 .…”