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Reasons for failure of immunization: A cross-sectional study among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow, India
BACKGROUND: Roughly 3 million children die every year of vaccine preventable diseases and a significant number of these children live in developing countries. The present study was conducted to assess the reasons for failure of immunization among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow city in India. MA...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3814854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223386 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.115809 |
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author | Vohra, Rajaat Vohra, Anusha Bhardwaj, Pankaj Srivastava, Jyoti Prakash Gupta, Pratibha |
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description | BACKGROUND: Roughly 3 million children die every year of vaccine preventable diseases and a significant number of these children live in developing countries. The present study was conducted to assess the reasons for failure of immunization among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow city in India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Out of all villages in rural areas and mohallas in urban areas of Lucknow district, eight villages and eight mohallas were selected by simple random sampling. A community based cross-sectional study was done among 450 children aged 12-23 months. The immunization status of the child was assessed by vaccination card and by mother's recall. A pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaire was used to elicit information on reasons for failure of immunization. Data was analysed using statistical package for social services (SPSS) version 11.5. Chi square test was used to find out the significant association. RESULTS: Overall, 62.7% children were fully immunized, 24.4% children were partially immunized, and 12.9% children were not immunized. The major reasons for failure of immunization were postponing it until another time, child being ill and hence not brought to the centre for immunization, unaware of the need of immunization, place of immunization being too far, no faith in immunization, unaware of the need to return for 2(nd) and 3(rd) dose, mother being too busy, fear of side reactions, wrong ideas about immunization, and polio was considered only vaccine, and others. CONCLUSION: More awareness should be generated among the people living in rural and urban areas to immunize their children. |
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spelling | pubmed-38148542013-11-12 Reasons for failure of immunization: A cross-sectional study among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow, India Vohra, Rajaat Vohra, Anusha Bhardwaj, Pankaj Srivastava, Jyoti Prakash Gupta, Pratibha Adv Biomed Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Roughly 3 million children die every year of vaccine preventable diseases and a significant number of these children live in developing countries. The present study was conducted to assess the reasons for failure of immunization among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow city in India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Out of all villages in rural areas and mohallas in urban areas of Lucknow district, eight villages and eight mohallas were selected by simple random sampling. A community based cross-sectional study was done among 450 children aged 12-23 months. The immunization status of the child was assessed by vaccination card and by mother's recall. A pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaire was used to elicit information on reasons for failure of immunization. Data was analysed using statistical package for social services (SPSS) version 11.5. Chi square test was used to find out the significant association. RESULTS: Overall, 62.7% children were fully immunized, 24.4% children were partially immunized, and 12.9% children were not immunized. The major reasons for failure of immunization were postponing it until another time, child being ill and hence not brought to the centre for immunization, unaware of the need of immunization, place of immunization being too far, no faith in immunization, unaware of the need to return for 2(nd) and 3(rd) dose, mother being too busy, fear of side reactions, wrong ideas about immunization, and polio was considered only vaccine, and others. CONCLUSION: More awareness should be generated among the people living in rural and urban areas to immunize their children. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3814854/ /pubmed/24223386 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.115809 Text en Copyright: © 2013 Vohra http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Vohra, Rajaat Vohra, Anusha Bhardwaj, Pankaj Srivastava, Jyoti Prakash Gupta, Pratibha Reasons for failure of immunization: A cross-sectional study among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow, India |
title | Reasons for failure of immunization: A cross-sectional study among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow, India |
title_full | Reasons for failure of immunization: A cross-sectional study among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow, India |
title_fullStr | Reasons for failure of immunization: A cross-sectional study among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Reasons for failure of immunization: A cross-sectional study among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow, India |
title_short | Reasons for failure of immunization: A cross-sectional study among 12-23-month-old children of Lucknow, India |
title_sort | reasons for failure of immunization: a cross-sectional study among 12-23-month-old children of lucknow, india |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3814854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223386 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.115809 |
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