KNOWLEDGE OF MOTHERS REGARDING IMMUNIZATION

Abstract

Introduction: According to WHO, immunization interventions have proven to be a success across the globe and today reach out to over 100 million children and prevent 2.5 million deaths per year. As new global health paradigms emerge, fresh perspectives and priorities are emerging in immunization as well. There are at least ten new antigens now available that can be added to the traditional EPI interventions including vaccines against Hepatitis B, Rotavirus, Japanese Encephalitis, and Human Papilloma Virus Methodology: All the mothers coming for BCG immunization of their infants were interviewed for assessing their baseline knowledge and attitude towards immunization and AEFI. Knowledge of the mothers was assessed with 0 and 1 scale, with 0 as not correct knowledge and 1 for correct knowledge. It was observed from this study that the Mean ± SD of pre-test Results: knowledge score on immunization was 2.86 ± 2.12 and post-test knowledge score on immunization was for 6.53 ± 2.17. There was a statistically highly signicant difference (t = 13.675, P < 0.001) between pre-test and post-test knowledge score on immunization. Conclusion: This implies that there was improvement of knowledge on immunization following health education in study subjects.