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

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Published: Dec 11, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62118/jmmc.v14i1.277

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Hamna Khan
Assistant Professor, Community Medicine Department. Liaquat National Medical College, Karachi
Muhammad Imran Marwat
Assistant Professor, Community Medicine Department. Khyber Medical College Peshawar
Zumaira Sauleh
Lecturer, Community Medicine Department, Liaquat National Medical College, Karachi
Nimra Akhtar
Lecturer, Community Medicine Department, Liaquat National Medical College, Karachi.
Shumaila Shahid
Demonstrator community medicine dept in CMH Institute of Medical Sciences
Azra Shaheen
Senior demonstrator Community Medicine Department, Nishtar medical university Multan.

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

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Hamna Khan, Muhammad Imran Marwat, Zumaira Sauleh, Nimra Akhtar, Shumaila Shahid, & Azra Shaheen. (2023). Exploring Mother’s Perspectives about Routine Immunization in District Peshawar: A Cross Sectional Survey. JMMC, 14(1), 6-9. https://doi.org/10.62118/jmmc.v14i1.277
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Vol 14 No 1 (2023): May 2023-Oct 2023
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