Faten Ezzelarab Younis, Omnia S Elseifi, Fatma Mustafa Toonisi, Maram Abdullah Alsamti, Hala Turki Alanazi, Eman M Mortada
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Abstract
Purpose: To ascertain the knowledge and attitudes of parents on childhood vaccination in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, as well as their perceived barriers to vaccination.
Patients and methods: Three hundred and thirty parents were selected in this cross-sectional study by convenience sampling from the parents who attended several primary healthcare facilities to vaccinate their children. A pre-made questionnaire was used, which included the sociodemographic characteristics and questions about the parents' knowledge, attitude toward childhood vaccination, and compliance with vaccination according to the immunization schedule. The associations between the research variables were evaluated using chi-square, the Pearson correlation, and multiple binary logistic regression.
Results: Among the parents studied, 66.1% had adequate knowledge of childhood vaccination, and 55.5% held positive attitudes toward it. The significant associated factors for adequate knowledge and positive attitude were the age from 30 to <40 (OR: 2.6 and 2.3, P<0.05), increasing education level (OR: 2.1 and 1.7, P<0.05), and work related to the health sector (OR: 2.7 and 4.4, P<0.05). The examined parents' attitude score increased significantly with the high level of knowledge score (r = 0.603, P < 0.001). Among the parents studied, 62.9% adhered to the childhood immunization schedule. In contrast, the most common perceived barriers for those who did not comply were the illness of a family member (36.7%), the child's sickness (32.8%), or being busy on vaccination day (31.4%).
Conclusion: Around half of the parents in this study had a positive attitude and understood the significance of vaccination. Nevertheless, the contributory factors of insufficient knowledge and attitude, like lower levels of education and advanced age, should be handled through health education initiatives to raise their awareness and motivate them to complete their children's vaccination.
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Patient Preference and Adherence is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal that focuses on the growing importance of patient preference and adherence throughout the therapeutic continuum. The journal is characterized by the rapid reporting of reviews, original research, modeling and clinical studies across all therapeutic areas. Patient satisfaction, acceptability, quality of life, compliance, persistence and their role in developing new therapeutic modalities and compounds to optimize clinical outcomes for existing disease states are major areas of interest for the journal.
As of 1st April 2019, Patient Preference and Adherence will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication.
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