Abstract
Background: Immunization is a cost effective process of improving child survival in developing countries.
Aim and Objectives: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of mothers with five years children of age about vaccination. To educate them regarding the vaccination schedule and importance of vaccination.
Methodology: It is a cross sectional study design. Purposive sampling technique was used for selecting study subjects. Data was collected from 60 mothers who visited immunization clinic during the study. Mothers with children under five years of age, mothers of Kashmiri ethnicity were included in the study.
Results: 61.6% of mothers completed their preschool education and majority of them are housewives (63.30%).Both mother and father used to make decision regarding child immunization (71.7%). TV/Radio, Anganwadi workers, Hospitals remain the major sources of information about immunization .65% of mothers know the correct age to start vaccination and majority (58.33%)of mothers believe that vaccines are not harmful. Most of the mothers believe that child with fever and cold should not be vaccinated. The attitude of mothers towards vaccination was satisfactory. 93.33% of mothers believe that vaccination is important and 91.66% of mothers believe that it is important to follow the vaccination schedule. The practices of mothers towards immunization were found to be satisfactory.
Conclusion: The attitude and practices of mothers were found to be satisfactory. Their knowledge was to be improved to promote better immunization coverage. Appropriate information & awareness campaigns may improve the knowledge of mothers regarding vaccination.
Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude, Vaccination, mothers.
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v5i7.22
