{"title":"Knowledge of childhood immunization among mothers in Umueze in 0sisioma Ngwa local government area of Abia State","authors":"None Prince Ezenwa Ndubueze Onyemachi","doi":"10.53771/ijbpsa.2023.6.2.0105","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: Childhood immunization almost guarantees protection from many major diseases, it is widely considered to be ‘overwhelmingly good’ by the scientific community. It averts an estimated 2.5 million deaths per year in all age groups from vaccine preventable diseases (VPD). Objective: To determine the knowledge of childhood immunization among mothers in Umueze in OsisiomaNgwa Local Government Area (LGA). Methods and materials: A cross-sectional study performed in Umueze Community in OsisiomaNgwa (LGA) in, Abia State, Nigeria. Self/interviewer questionnaires were administered to 480 women for the study. The collected data were cleaned, coded and entered into SPSS version 26 for analysis, Binary logistic regression analyses were performed to identify variables having a significant association with maternal knowledge. Result: A total of 480 women selected with a non-response rate of 30 (6.3%). Mean age was 35 ± 7.246. Majority of mothers 264 (58.7%) got information on immunization from health workers. Majority of mothers 300 (66.7%) believed that immunization is important. Three hundred and seventy (82.0%) believed that there was a benefit of immunization, 360 (80.0%) believed that immunization was free, 350 (77.8%) believed that lack of centres was the cause of reduced child immunization, 370 (82.2%) started immunizing their children after birth, 245 (54.4%) mothers gave their children all the immunization and 235 (54.7%) knew route of administration of BCG, while 355 (78.9%) women had good knowledge of immunization. Mothers who attended primary schools and above (AOR; 5.210 p = 0.002), married mothers (AOR; 4.224, p =0.03) Mothers age ≤ 35 years (AOR; 2.415 p = 0.001were statistically associated with maternal knowledgeable of immunization. Christian mothers (2.309, p = 0.12) were not statistically associated with maternal knowledge of immunization. Conclusion: Maternal knowledge of immunization is very important in immunization services.","PeriodicalId":400966,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Archive","volume":"40 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Archive","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.53771/ijbpsa.2023.6.2.0105","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Background: Childhood immunization almost guarantees protection from many major diseases, it is widely considered to be ‘overwhelmingly good’ by the scientific community. It averts an estimated 2.5 million deaths per year in all age groups from vaccine preventable diseases (VPD). Objective: To determine the knowledge of childhood immunization among mothers in Umueze in OsisiomaNgwa Local Government Area (LGA). Methods and materials: A cross-sectional study performed in Umueze Community in OsisiomaNgwa (LGA) in, Abia State, Nigeria. Self/interviewer questionnaires were administered to 480 women for the study. The collected data were cleaned, coded and entered into SPSS version 26 for analysis, Binary logistic regression analyses were performed to identify variables having a significant association with maternal knowledge. Result: A total of 480 women selected with a non-response rate of 30 (6.3%). Mean age was 35 ± 7.246. Majority of mothers 264 (58.7%) got information on immunization from health workers. Majority of mothers 300 (66.7%) believed that immunization is important. Three hundred and seventy (82.0%) believed that there was a benefit of immunization, 360 (80.0%) believed that immunization was free, 350 (77.8%) believed that lack of centres was the cause of reduced child immunization, 370 (82.2%) started immunizing their children after birth, 245 (54.4%) mothers gave their children all the immunization and 235 (54.7%) knew route of administration of BCG, while 355 (78.9%) women had good knowledge of immunization. Mothers who attended primary schools and above (AOR; 5.210 p = 0.002), married mothers (AOR; 4.224, p =0.03) Mothers age ≤ 35 years (AOR; 2.415 p = 0.001were statistically associated with maternal knowledgeable of immunization. Christian mothers (2.309, p = 0.12) were not statistically associated with maternal knowledge of immunization. Conclusion: Maternal knowledge of immunization is very important in immunization services.
背景:儿童免疫几乎保证了对许多重大疾病的保护,它被科学界广泛认为是“绝对有益的”。它每年可避免所有年龄组约250万人死于疫苗可预防疾病(VPD)。目的:了解奥西马曼格瓦地方政府区乌穆韦泽地区母亲对儿童免疫知识的了解情况。方法和材料:在尼日利亚阿比亚州奥西omangwa (LGA)的Umueze社区进行了一项横断面研究。研究人员对480名女性进行了自我/访谈问卷调查。对收集到的数据进行清洗、编码并输入SPSS 26进行分析,进行二元logistic回归分析,找出与孕产妇知识有显著相关性的变量。结果:共入选480例,无应答率30例(6.3%)。平均年龄35±7.246岁。大多数母亲264人(58.7%)从卫生工作者那里获得了免疫信息。300名母亲中的大多数(66.7%)认为免疫接种很重要。370人(82.0%)认为免疫有好处,360人(80.0%)认为免疫是免费的,350人(77.8%)认为缺乏接种中心是导致儿童免疫减少的原因,370人(82.2%)在出生后开始给孩子接种免疫,245人(54.4%)的母亲给孩子接种了全部免疫,235人(54.7%)知道卡介苗的接种途径,355人(78.9%)的妇女对免疫有良好的了解。小学及以上学历的母亲;5.210 p = 0.002),已婚母亲(AOR;4.224, p =0.03)母亲年龄≤35岁(AOR;2.415 p = 0.001与孕产妇免疫知识相关。基督教母亲(2.309,p = 0.12)与母亲免疫知识无统计学相关性。结论:孕产妇免疫知识在免疫服务中起着重要作用。