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Nigerian rural mothers’ knowledge of routine childhood immunizations and attitudes about use of reminder text messages for promoting timely completion

Mothers’ poor knowledge and attitudes about routine immunization impede child- hood immunization completion. This study assessed mothers’ knowledge in rural communities about routine immunization and acceptability of mobile phone reminder text messages as an intervention for improving uptake and tim...

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Autores principales: Oladepo, Oladimeji, Dipeolu, Isaac Oluwafemi, Oladunni, Opeyemi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: ORIGINAL ARTICLE 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7771534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31427672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-019-00180-7
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description Mothers’ poor knowledge and attitudes about routine immunization impede child- hood immunization completion. This study assessed mothers’ knowledge in rural communities about routine immunization and acceptability of mobile phone reminder text messages as an intervention for improving uptake and timely completion of routine immunization. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional design among 3440 consenting mothers of infants in six randomly selected Nigerian states and in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). We used a Focus Group Discussion guide and validated questionnaire to collect data; we analysed data using a thematic approach and descriptive statistics. Respondents’ ages were 26.7 ± 5.5 years. Knowl- edge of routine immunization was poor; attitudinal disposition was positive. Most (90.5%) indicated willingness to accept reminder text messages for routine immu- nization and 91.5% opined that mobile phones can be effective in providing such information. Mothers’ willingness to accept the use of SMS reminder text messages for promoting routine immunization completion requires well-designed and culture- sensitive persuasive messages.
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spelling pubmed-77715342021-01-11 Nigerian rural mothers’ knowledge of routine childhood immunizations and attitudes about use of reminder text messages for promoting timely completion Oladepo, Oladimeji Dipeolu, Isaac Oluwafemi Oladunni, Opeyemi J Public Health Policy Original Article Mothers’ poor knowledge and attitudes about routine immunization impede child- hood immunization completion. This study assessed mothers’ knowledge in rural communities about routine immunization and acceptability of mobile phone reminder text messages as an intervention for improving uptake and timely completion of routine immunization. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional design among 3440 consenting mothers of infants in six randomly selected Nigerian states and in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). We used a Focus Group Discussion guide and validated questionnaire to collect data; we analysed data using a thematic approach and descriptive statistics. Respondents’ ages were 26.7 ± 5.5 years. Knowl- edge of routine immunization was poor; attitudinal disposition was positive. Most (90.5%) indicated willingness to accept reminder text messages for routine immu- nization and 91.5% opined that mobile phones can be effective in providing such information. Mothers’ willingness to accept the use of SMS reminder text messages for promoting routine immunization completion requires well-designed and culture- sensitive persuasive messages. ORIGINAL ARTICLE 2019-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7771534/ /pubmed/31427672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-019-00180-7 Text en © 2019 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Nigerian rural mothers’ knowledge of routine childhood immunizations and attitudes about use of reminder text messages for promoting timely completion
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title_full Nigerian rural mothers’ knowledge of routine childhood immunizations and attitudes about use of reminder text messages for promoting timely completion
title_fullStr Nigerian rural mothers’ knowledge of routine childhood immunizations and attitudes about use of reminder text messages for promoting timely completion
title_full_unstemmed Nigerian rural mothers’ knowledge of routine childhood immunizations and attitudes about use of reminder text messages for promoting timely completion
title_short Nigerian rural mothers’ knowledge of routine childhood immunizations and attitudes about use of reminder text messages for promoting timely completion
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7771534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31427672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-019-00180-7
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