ASSESMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND ATTTITUDE OF PARENTS REGARDING UNIVERSAL IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMME (UIP)

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P ag e6 ASSESMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND ATTTITUDE OF PARENTS REGARDING UNIVERSAL IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMME (UIP) Dr. Ashok Kumar Dhanwal* *Nursing Officer, PGIMER & RMLH, New Delhi, India. DOI: http://doi.org/10.47211/idcij.2020.v07iws02.002 ABSTRACT Immunization is vital; it protects nearly 3/4 th of children against major childhood illness. There are several diseases which can be easily prevented by timely vaccination as part of routine immunization. India's vaccine deficit has several causes like poorly educated population or lack of awareness among people. Aim; To assess the knowledge and attitude of parents regarding universal immunization programme. To determine the significant association of knowledge and attitude with selected demographic variables and To teach a health education module on UIP of India. Material and methods; an exploratory descriptive survey method was used as a research design. Statistics was accumulated with the aid of convenient sampling method from 500 parents of selected rural areas of Jaipur city. The tool included ten demographic variable and 30 established questions regarding knowledge and attitude on immunization. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for analysis. Conclusion: The study revealed that the majority of parents have moderate score of knowledge 59.8% regarding immunization where as 40.2% have inadequate level of knowledge. It is also depicts that none of them have adequate level of knowledge regarding immunization. And the attitude score calculated that 20.6% parents have positive attitude towards immunization of under-five children whereas majority of parents 77.4% have no opinion or don’t know regarding child immunization and only 2% parents have negative attitude towards child immunization. there is significant association between the score level of knowledge and selected demographic variables like (age, religion, monthly income, education, type of family, source of acquiring knowledge and status of immunization).There is no significance association between the level of knowledge scores and other demographic variables like (sex, occupation and number of under-five year children) The calculated chi-square values were less than the table value at the 0.05 level of significance. There is significance association between the score level of attitude and demographic variables (age, numbers of under-five children in family, religion, occupation, monthly income and education). There is no significance association between the level of scores and other demographic variables (sex, type of family, source of acquiring knowledge and status of immunization) The calculated chi-square values were less than the table value at the 0.05 level of significance.