Vaccine hesitancy among caregivers and association with childhood vaccination timeliness in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Autor:	Masters NB; a Department of Epidemiology , School of Public Health, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI , USA., Tefera YA; b Department of Public Health , St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College , Addis Ababa , Ethiopia., Wagner AL; a Department of Epidemiology , School of Public Health, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI , USA., Boulton ML; a Department of Epidemiology , School of Public Health, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI , USA.; c Department of Internal Medicine , Division of Infectious Disease, University of Michigan Medical School , Ann Arbor , MI , USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics [Hum Vaccin Immunother] 2018; Vol. 14 (10), pp. 2340-2347. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jun 28.
DOI:	10.1080/21645515.2018.1480242
Abstrakt:	Introduction: Vaccines are vital to reducing childhood mortality, and prevent an estimated 2 to 3 million deaths annually which disproportionately occur in the developing world. Overall vaccine coverage is typically used as a metric to evaluate the adequacy of vaccine program performance, though it does not account for untimely administration, which may unnecessarily prolong children's susceptibility to disease. This study explored a hypothesized positive association between increasing vaccine hesitancy and untimeliness of immunizations administered under the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods: This cross-sectional survey employed a multistage sampling design, randomly selecting one health center within five sub-cities of Addis Ababa. Caregivers of 3 to 12-month-old infants completed a questionnaire on vaccine hesitancy, and their infants' vaccination cards were examined to assess timeliness of received vaccinations. Results: The sample comprised 350 caregivers. Overall, 82.3% of the surveyed children received all recommended vaccines, although only 55.9% of these vaccinations were timely. Few caregivers (3.4%) reported ever hesitating and 3.7% reported ever refusing a vaccine for their child. Vaccine hesitancy significantly increased the odds of untimely vaccination (AOR 1.94, 95% CI: 1.02, 3.71) in the adjusted analysis. Conclusions: This study found high vaccine coverage among a sample of 350 young children in Addis Ababa, though only half received all recommended vaccines on time. High vaccine hesitancy was strongly associated with infants' untimely vaccination, indicating that increased efforts to educate community members and providers about vaccines may have a beneficial impact on vaccine timeliness in Addis Ababa.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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