An Evaluation of the Measles Rubella Mass Vaccination Program in Schools of Meerut Cantonment 2018 and Assessment of Parents KAP towards Program

Abstract

Background: Measles Rubella campaign is global effort to eliminate measles and control of rubella byvaccinating to children of 9 months to below 15 years of age group. The purpose of this study is to estimatethe post campaign level of MR vaccination coverage carried out in Meerut cantonment (2018-19) and tostudy how the patterns of personal attitudes of mothers are linked to the decision making process for MRvaccination.Methodology: Cross sectional study carried out in 27 schools with target population of 30950, initiallyconsent for vaccination with few demographic details has been distributed to parents through schooladministration, based on responses classified three groups, group 1 positive attitude, group 2 fearful attitudeand group 3 critical attitude further we used Latent class analysis and for the subgroups 5% of group 2and group 3 participant groups multinomial logistic regression analysis used for finding the strength ofassociation and descriptive statistics, mean, median and percentages are applied in the analysis.Results: Target reached 89.9% and missed opportunity 10.10%, LCA Biggest group are with fearful attitudefollowed with positive and critical. Odds ratio of all variables calculated.Conclusion: Media communication has to reach in population to all religion groups of people explainingto social media rumors and monitoring by doctors directly increase the acceptance and vaccination rates.