Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia
Aim: Mothers knowledge and attitude toward childhood vaccination influence uptake is the most adequate tool and preventive aspects to infectious disease epidemics. The present study assesses and measures knowledge and attitude of postnatal mothers toward vaccination. Methods and results: The present...
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| author | Helvinder Kaur Balbir Singh Vishal Bhagwan Badgujar Rose Suzila Yahaya Santibuana Abd Rahman Farheen Mohd Sami Sangeeta Badgujar Subhashini Nair Govindan Mohammed Tahir Ansari |
| author_facet | Helvinder Kaur Balbir Singh Vishal Bhagwan Badgujar Rose Suzila Yahaya Santibuana Abd Rahman Farheen Mohd Sami Sangeeta Badgujar Subhashini Nair Govindan Mohammed Tahir Ansari |
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| description | Aim: Mothers knowledge and attitude toward childhood vaccination influence uptake is the most adequate tool and preventive aspects to infectious disease epidemics. The present study assesses and measures knowledge and attitude of postnatal mothers toward vaccination. Methods and results: The present study adopted a cross-sectional study design, whereby 200 postnatal mothers were identified during their postnatal visit to clinics. The subjects were accessed using questionnaire to assess the level of knowledge and attitude of mothers regarding vaccination. The objectives were to study the level of knowledge, the attitude, and to find the association between knowledge and attitude of the study subjects. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 16. The results was analyzed through chi-square test. The association between age (p = .031), education (p = .021), occupation (p = .013), and knowledge score toward vaccination was found to be statistically significant. However, ethnicity (p = .127), employment (p = .197), and mode of delivery (p = .750) toward mothers vaccination knowledge were not significant for the study. Mothers education, age, and occupation were found to be associated with attitude toward childhood vaccination. No association was found between ethnicity, employment, and mode of delivery with attitude of childhood vaccination. Conclusion: More than half of the studied mothers had good knowledge scores on vaccination, more than two-thirds of the studied mothers had good attitude scores on vaccination. However, the religious misconception and fear of autism was the main cause of vaccine resistance in Malaysia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-be01fa9e025f416b8f98698d689d7df42023-09-22T08:45:31ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics2164-55152164-554X2019-11-0115112544255110.1080/21645515.2019.16126661612666Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in MalaysiaHelvinder Kaur Balbir Singh0Vishal Bhagwan Badgujar1Rose Suzila Yahaya2Santibuana Abd Rahman3Farheen Mohd Sami4Sangeeta Badgujar5Subhashini Nair Govindan6Mohammed Tahir Ansari7Universiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine PerakUniversiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine PerakUniversiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine PerakUniversiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine PerakUniversiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine PerakR. C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and ResearchUniversiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine PerakUniversiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine PerakAim: Mothers knowledge and attitude toward childhood vaccination influence uptake is the most adequate tool and preventive aspects to infectious disease epidemics. The present study assesses and measures knowledge and attitude of postnatal mothers toward vaccination. Methods and results: The present study adopted a cross-sectional study design, whereby 200 postnatal mothers were identified during their postnatal visit to clinics. The subjects were accessed using questionnaire to assess the level of knowledge and attitude of mothers regarding vaccination. The objectives were to study the level of knowledge, the attitude, and to find the association between knowledge and attitude of the study subjects. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 16. The results was analyzed through chi-square test. The association between age (p = .031), education (p = .021), occupation (p = .013), and knowledge score toward vaccination was found to be statistically significant. However, ethnicity (p = .127), employment (p = .197), and mode of delivery (p = .750) toward mothers vaccination knowledge were not significant for the study. Mothers education, age, and occupation were found to be associated with attitude toward childhood vaccination. No association was found between ethnicity, employment, and mode of delivery with attitude of childhood vaccination. Conclusion: More than half of the studied mothers had good knowledge scores on vaccination, more than two-thirds of the studied mothers had good attitude scores on vaccination. However, the religious misconception and fear of autism was the main cause of vaccine resistance in Malaysia.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1612666knowledgeattitudechildhood vaccinationpost natal mothers |
| spellingShingle | Helvinder Kaur Balbir Singh Vishal Bhagwan Badgujar Rose Suzila Yahaya Santibuana Abd Rahman Farheen Mohd Sami Sangeeta Badgujar Subhashini Nair Govindan Mohammed Tahir Ansari Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics knowledge attitude childhood vaccination post natal mothers |
| title | Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia |
| title_full | Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia |
| title_short | Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia |
| title_sort | assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in malaysia |
| topic | knowledge attitude childhood vaccination post natal mothers |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1612666 |
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