Health Care : Current Reviews

Abstract

Vaccination Status and Factors Associated With It among Children Aged 12- 23 Months in Wadera District, South East Ethiopia

Udessa G, Sena L and Berhanu S

Background: Vaccination is one of public health interventions that protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases. In 2012 the WHO revealed that around 1.5 million children worldwide died from vaccine-preventable diseases. There for the objective of the study was to assess Vaccination status and factors associated with it among children aged 12-23 months in Wadera District.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from May to June 2016. Stratified simple random sampling technique was used to select study participants and semi-structured questionnaire using interview-administered technique was used to collect data. The collected data were entered using Epi Data version 3.2 and analyzed by SPSS version 20. Multivariate logistic regression with 95% Confidence Interval (CI) and p value<0.05 level of significance were used to assess factors associated with vaccination status.
Results: Four hundred four mothers were interviewed, giving a response rate of 98.2% and from the total, 41.4% were fully vaccinated while 5.9% of the children were unvaccinated. Variables showing further association includes; had three or above Anti Natal Care (ANC) visit [AOR=3.8 (2.1-6.9)], three or above doses of TT vaccine [AOR=4 (1.7- 9.6)], Children born in health institutions [AOR=2.1 (1.1- 4.0)], had Post Natal Care (PNC) follow up [AOR=2.8 (1.6- 5.0)], mothers who were walked less than 30 min to Vaccination site [AOR=4.0 (1.2-13.2)] and mothers who had good knowledge on vaccine [AOR=5.7 (2.9-11.2)].
Conclusion: The vaccination coverage in the District was low.