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Factors Associated with Zero-Dose Childhood Vaccination Status in a Remote Fishing Community in Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study

Background: Cameroon’s suboptimal access to childhood vaccinations poses a significant challenge to achieving the Immunization Agenda 2030 goal—ranking among the top 15 countries with a high proportion of zero-dose (unvaccinated) children worldwide. There are clusters of zero-dose children in pocket...

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Autores principales: Nchinjoh, Sangwe Clovis, Saidu, Yauba, Agbor, Valirie Ndip, Mbanga, Clarence Mvalo, Jude Muteh, Nkwain, Njoh, Andreas Ateke, Ndoula, Shalom Tchofke, Nsah, Bernard, Edwige, Nnang Nadege, Roberman, Sveta, Zamir, Chen Stein
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9784537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36560465
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10122052
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author Nchinjoh, Sangwe Clovis
Saidu, Yauba
Agbor, Valirie Ndip
Mbanga, Clarence Mvalo
Jude Muteh, Nkwain
Njoh, Andreas Ateke
Ndoula, Shalom Tchofke
Nsah, Bernard
Edwige, Nnang Nadege
Roberman, Sveta
Zamir, Chen Stein
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Saidu, Yauba
Agbor, Valirie Ndip
Mbanga, Clarence Mvalo
Jude Muteh, Nkwain
Njoh, Andreas Ateke
Ndoula, Shalom Tchofke
Nsah, Bernard
Edwige, Nnang Nadege
Roberman, Sveta
Zamir, Chen Stein
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description Background: Cameroon’s suboptimal access to childhood vaccinations poses a significant challenge to achieving the Immunization Agenda 2030 goal—ranking among the top 15 countries with a high proportion of zero-dose (unvaccinated) children worldwide. There are clusters of zero-dose children in pockets of communities that traditionally miss essential healthcare services, including vaccination. The Manoka Health District (MHD) is home to such settlements with consistently low vaccination coverages (DPT-HepB-Hib-1: 19.8% in 2021) and frequent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD). Therefore, the absence of literature on zero-dose children in this context was a clarion call to characterize zero-dose children in fragile settings to inform policy and intervention design. Methodology: This cross-sectional analytical study involved 278 children, 0–24 months of age, selected from a 2020 door-to-door survey conducted in the two most populous health areas in an archipelago rural district, MHD (Cap-Cameroon and Toube). We used R Statistical Software (v4.1.2; R Core Team 2021) to run a multivariable logistic regression to determine zero-dose associated factors. Results: The survey revealed a zero-dose proportion of 91.7% (255) in MHD. Children who were delivered in health facilities were less likely to be zero-dose than those born at home (AOR: 0.07, 95% CI: 0.02–0.30, p = 0.0003). Compared to children born of Christian mothers, children born to minority non-Christian mothers had higher odds of being zero-dose (AOR: 6.55, 95% CI: 1.04–41.25, p = 0.0453). Children born to fathers who are immigrants were more likely to be zero-dose children than Cameroonians (AOR: 2.60, 95% CI = 0.65–10.35, p = 0.0016). Younger children were likely to be unvaccinated compared to older peers (AOR: 0.90, 95% CI: 0.82–1.00, p = 0.0401). Conclusions: In the spirit of “leaving no child behind,” the study highlights the need to develop context-specific approaches that consider minority religious groups, immigrants, and younger children, including newborns, often missed during vaccination campaigns and outreaches
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spelling pubmed-97845372022-12-24 Factors Associated with Zero-Dose Childhood Vaccination Status in a Remote Fishing Community in Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study Nchinjoh, Sangwe Clovis Saidu, Yauba Agbor, Valirie Ndip Mbanga, Clarence Mvalo Jude Muteh, Nkwain Njoh, Andreas Ateke Ndoula, Shalom Tchofke Nsah, Bernard Edwige, Nnang Nadege Roberman, Sveta Zamir, Chen Stein Vaccines (Basel) Article Background: Cameroon’s suboptimal access to childhood vaccinations poses a significant challenge to achieving the Immunization Agenda 2030 goal—ranking among the top 15 countries with a high proportion of zero-dose (unvaccinated) children worldwide. There are clusters of zero-dose children in pockets of communities that traditionally miss essential healthcare services, including vaccination. The Manoka Health District (MHD) is home to such settlements with consistently low vaccination coverages (DPT-HepB-Hib-1: 19.8% in 2021) and frequent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD). Therefore, the absence of literature on zero-dose children in this context was a clarion call to characterize zero-dose children in fragile settings to inform policy and intervention design. Methodology: This cross-sectional analytical study involved 278 children, 0–24 months of age, selected from a 2020 door-to-door survey conducted in the two most populous health areas in an archipelago rural district, MHD (Cap-Cameroon and Toube). We used R Statistical Software (v4.1.2; R Core Team 2021) to run a multivariable logistic regression to determine zero-dose associated factors. Results: The survey revealed a zero-dose proportion of 91.7% (255) in MHD. Children who were delivered in health facilities were less likely to be zero-dose than those born at home (AOR: 0.07, 95% CI: 0.02–0.30, p = 0.0003). Compared to children born of Christian mothers, children born to minority non-Christian mothers had higher odds of being zero-dose (AOR: 6.55, 95% CI: 1.04–41.25, p = 0.0453). Children born to fathers who are immigrants were more likely to be zero-dose children than Cameroonians (AOR: 2.60, 95% CI = 0.65–10.35, p = 0.0016). Younger children were likely to be unvaccinated compared to older peers (AOR: 0.90, 95% CI: 0.82–1.00, p = 0.0401). Conclusions: In the spirit of “leaving no child behind,” the study highlights the need to develop context-specific approaches that consider minority religious groups, immigrants, and younger children, including newborns, often missed during vaccination campaigns and outreaches MDPI 2022-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9784537/ /pubmed/36560465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10122052 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Nchinjoh, Sangwe Clovis
Saidu, Yauba
Agbor, Valirie Ndip
Mbanga, Clarence Mvalo
Jude Muteh, Nkwain
Njoh, Andreas Ateke
Ndoula, Shalom Tchofke
Nsah, Bernard
Edwige, Nnang Nadege
Roberman, Sveta
Zamir, Chen Stein
Factors Associated with Zero-Dose Childhood Vaccination Status in a Remote Fishing Community in Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study
title Factors Associated with Zero-Dose Childhood Vaccination Status in a Remote Fishing Community in Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study
title_full Factors Associated with Zero-Dose Childhood Vaccination Status in a Remote Fishing Community in Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study
title_fullStr Factors Associated with Zero-Dose Childhood Vaccination Status in a Remote Fishing Community in Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study
title_full_unstemmed Factors Associated with Zero-Dose Childhood Vaccination Status in a Remote Fishing Community in Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study
title_short Factors Associated with Zero-Dose Childhood Vaccination Status in a Remote Fishing Community in Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study
title_sort factors associated with zero-dose childhood vaccination status in a remote fishing community in cameroon: a cross-sectional analytical study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9784537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36560465
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10122052
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