| Autor: |
ÖZLEM, ALI, ÖZLEM, ARZU, KOÇAK, MESUT, MEHMET, NIMETCAN |
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Malaysian Journal of Health Sciences / Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia; 2022, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p11-22, 12p |
| Abstrakt: |
The Rejection of childhood vaccination is still a major issue in many countries. The aim of the study was to assess prevalence of Turkish parent refusal and hesitance rate and its associated factors in Childhood vaccination. A crosssectional study was carried out at the General Pediatric Poly Clinic of Ankara Keçören Training and Research Hospital from January - to April 2020. Data was collected using a questionnaire via face to face interviews with parents. We included parents who have 6 months to 7 years old children, who visited the clinic during the study period and who accepted to join the study. A total of 809 mothers and 132 fathers participated in the survey. Among the parents, 1.2% of them refused the vaccination of their children and 4.8 % of them had incomplete vaccination of their children. More than half (67.4%) of the parents have a high level of knowledge about vaccines. knowledge level was statistically significantly different based on the participant's occupation, income, education background and father's age (P <0.05). A majority (72.2%) of the participants had good attitudes toward childhood vaccination, there is no statistically significance based on their occupation, age, income and education background (P > 0.05). Parents with one child had bad attitudes towards vaccines (35.4%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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