Abstract
<p><em>Tetanus is an acute disease caused by the toxin of a bacterium called C</em><em>lostridium tetani which is often found in soil. It is a life-threatening bacterial disease, which causes severe mortality among maternal, neonatal, and young infant. It is so serious even it can waste pregnancy, harm her baby during pregnancy or after delivery. A quasi experimental community based study was conducted among pregnant women and mothers with newborns in Khartoum North Locality from 2015-2019 with the aim to assess the effectiveness of health education intervening in raising tetanus toxoid vaccination coverage among pregnant women and mothers with new born. 266 participants were selected by using a systematic random sampling technique. The intervention that continued for six months includes; health talks, home visits, video show, presentations with power points, focus groups discussion, exhibitions, distribution of printed materials, pamphlets, brochures and posters. The data was statistically analyzed by using the (SPSS) and significant t and </em><em>c</em><em>2 - tests. The result showed a significant increase in the participants’ knowledge after the intervention towards tetanus toxoid at P value 0.00, the mode of infection with tetanus at P value 0.00, vulnerable group to tetanus at p value is 0.00, the seriousness of the tetanus at P value 0.00, neonatal tetanus at P value 0.00. There was a significant positive modification of the participants’ attitudes towards the easiness to communicate with the health workers at P value 0.00. The result showed a significant change in the participants’ practices towards vaccination against tetanus toxic at P value 0.00 and significant change towards taking vaccine dose regularly at P value 0.00. The study recommended that Federal Ministry of Health has to conduct many health education interventions to raise the tetanus toxoid vaccination coverage. </em><em></em></p>
Highlights
1.1 Background Tetanus is an acute disease caused by the toxin of a bacterium called Clostridium tetani which is often found in soil
It showed 64.6% of the participants knew what tetanus vaccination was but only 16.7% were able to correctly identify that it was used against maternal and neonatal tetanus and It showed that 56.9% of the participants had been vaccinated.7Study that conducted in Sudan by Fadwa (2003), which aimed to study knowledge and behavior of mothers towards tetanus toxoid vaccination and showed high significant association between mother’s educational level and their knowledge concerning maternal tetanus at p value 0.000 and significant relationship between mothers ages and vaccination with at least one dose of TT. at P value 0.012 (Fadwa, 2003)
The results showed that the majority (88.2%) of the participants’ educational level are primary and secondary, where there was insignificant association between mothers’ educational level and vaccination against tetanus toxoid at p value 0.959
Summary
1.1 Background Tetanus is an acute disease caused by the toxin of a bacterium called Clostridium tetani which is often found in soil. Lack of engagement may be compounded if services are delivered in a hurried, inflexible, didactic manner study that conducted in central Ethiopia by Birmeta et al (2012), which aimed to assess the determinants of maternal health care utilization among women who had given birth in the past three years prior to the survey. It showed that when ANC users asked about the personal respect of health workers at ANC unit, the majority 91.2%
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