Vaccination Coverage and Associated Factors among Children Aged 12–23 Months in Debre Markos Town, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

Introduction. Vaccination is the administration of a vaccine or a biological substance intended to stimulate a recipient's immune system to produce antibodies or undergo other changes that provide future protection against specific infectious diseases. Objective. To determine vaccination coverage and associated factors among children aged 12-23 months in Debre Markos town 2016. Methods. Community-based cross-sectional study was employed among 288 mothers/caretakers to child (12-23 months) pair. Study populations were selected using systematic random sampling technique. Structured interviewer administered questionnaires were used to collect data. Variables with value of less than 0.05 in multivariate analysis were considered as statistically significant at 95% CI. Result. About 264 (91.7%) of children were completely vaccinated. Male birth 3.24 (1.16-9.04), wanted pregnancy 2.89 (1.17-7.17), having at least two ANC follow-ups 4.04 (1.35-12.06), and short distance from vaccination site 3.38 (1.29-8.86) were found positively associated with complete immunization. Conclusion and Recommendation. There was relatively high immunization coverage in the study. Child's sex, ANC follow-up, type of pregnancy, and distance from health institution were factors associated with complete vaccination. Preventing unwanted pregnancy and promoting ANC and postnatal follow-up should be strengthened. Vaccination sites should also be further expanded.

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“…is may be due to increasing access to vaccination and community awareness from time to time. But, this study is lower than the study conducted in Debre Markos town in 2016, which showed a total number of fully vaccinated children aged 12-23 months was 91.7% [24].…”

“…e people who live in this region may have less educational status and may live far from the healthcare institutions. But still, our study has a higher dropout rate from a study conducted in Debre Markos town, Amhara region, which showed the overall dropout rate was 5% [24]. is is due to the fact that there are different challenges in our study area like workload and no vaccination on the day of vaccination.…”

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“…This may be due to improving vaccination's access and awareness of a community from time to time. But this study was lower than study done in Debre Markos town (91.7%) [23].This may be due to insufficient vaccine available.…”

“…Dropout rate from pentavalent1 to measles (8.3%) was greater than dropout rate from pentavalent (2.4%).However, this finding was lower than other studies such as EDHS 2011 and a study done in Yirgalem town [15,20]. On the other side, this study has a higher dropout rate from study done in Debre Markos town (5%) [23].This may due to workload, insufficient of vaccine.…”

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“…In this study the overall drop out was 4.7%. This finding is comparable to a finding from a study conducted in Debre markos town, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia which reported the overall dropout was 5% (Gualu et al, 2017). The finding is lower from a report from a study conducted in Bareilly District 37.3% (Joshi et al, 2011).…”