Knowledge and Attitude towards Childhood Immunization among Parents in Al-Mukalla, Yemen

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards Vaccination among Parents in Al Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia

“…In Georgia [13], most mothers (97%) had positive attitude toward child immunization which was slightly higher than our study outcome. Additionally, a positive attitude toward childhood immunization were also reported in a study conducted by Bamatraf & Jawass [10], which was congruent with our study result. The overall practice toward childhood immunization was generally good which was observed from 60.9% of the parents, followed by moderate practice 36.7% and few had poor practice (2.4%) with a mean score of 20.9 ± 2.28 out of 24 points.…”

“…In Central Region [8], the total knowledge score of parents regarding childhood vaccination was slightly higher than our results with 8.08 ± 1.8 out of 11 while in a paper published by Habib et al, [9] it was determined that the overall Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of parents toward childhood immunization was generally good among 87.2% of the parents which was also higher than our study findings. In neighboring country [10], the overall knowledge score of parents was 8.58 ± 2.19 with majority of the parents had moderate knowledge (63.3%), followed by high knowledge (23.3%) and low knowledge (13.5%) which was in accordance with our study findings. However, in Nepal [11], a great proportion of the parents were found to have good knowledge (72.5%) and this has been corroborated by the study published in India [12], where they reported 72.7% of the parents were having god knowledge, followed by average (21.8%) and poor knowledge (5.4%).…”

“…For example, in Saudi Arabia, Al-Zahrani [8], reported that the factors significantly associated with better knowledge score and positive parental attitude regarding child vaccination were source of information about child vaccination from TV, internet and journals/newspapers, parents with first child, younger age, and higher level of education while Yousif et al, [16] indicated gender, residence and educational level were the factors significantly associated with both parents knowledge and attitude towards immunizations. In neighboring country [10], they accounted age group and the number of their pre-school children were statistically significant at the mean score of knowledge. In Nepal [11], many factors were attributed to the level of knowledge such as gender, ethnicity, education level, occupation, having radio, TV and mobile phone at home while ethnicity, occupation living condition and education were statistically significant for immunization practice.…”

Parents’ Knowledge toward Pediatric Immunization and its Relation with their Compliance at Primary Health Care Centers in Karbala City

“…The results of the study on hand showed that the majority of the studied parents had a moderate level of knowledge towards children immunization as shown in table (2). This findings was agree with the results in Yemen that was carried out a cross-sectional survey study on (400) parents, the study revealed that the (63.3%) of parents had a moderate level of knowledge [13] .…”

“…The results of the this study showed that no significant association was found between knowledge of parents towards immunization and their compliance (child immunization status) in a table (4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15). These results agree with Trushitkumar et al (2017), they reported that no significant association was found between the parents' knowledge and the immunization status of their children.…”