DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i01.006

Pages: 31-39

Background: For better utilization of vaccination service with newly available antigens, it became essential to eradicate these gaps in Knowledge Attitude Practices (KAP) by health promotion & health education. In this study, an endeavour is being done to assess knowledge, attitude of parents towards immunization. An effort has been made to assess immunization service utilization by parents. Materials & Methods: The first section of the questionnaire reflected on the demographics of respondents. This includes independent variables such as responder’s name, age, relation with child, father’s education, occupation, family income per month, mother’s education, mother’s age at delivery, total number of family members (household size), religion and contact details along with bio-social characteristic of child namely age, sex, place of delivery, birth order. The second section of questionnaire is consisting of immunization status of the child. Third section is consisting of questions about reason for partial or complete immunization and source of immunization information. Fourth section of general questionnaire is subdivided in two parts. First part is consisting of total 7 questions of which first 4 questions were of general knowledge about vaccine. Next 3 questions are to assess attitude of the parent. The second part is consisting of questions about specific vaccine. Results: Majority of parents belonged to age group 31-40 years (71%) followed by age group 21-30 years (26.5%). Very few (2.5%) of parents belonged to age group 41-50. As per our study, 49.75% and 46.25% mother had delivered the child at age group of 21-25 and 26-30 years. Only 4% mother delivered the child at age of 31-35 years. Mean maternal age at delivery of the child was 25.7 years, and range was of 21-35 years (SD=2.65 years).