Tenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIAs) campaigns provide children with an additional dose of vaccines and deliver other interventions. However, there is dearth of information on knowledge, attitude and perception of vaccination during Supplementary Immunization Activities. A descriptive cross-sectional study which employed multistage sampling technique was designed to fill this gap. A pre-tested semi-structured interviewer administered questionnaire was used to elicit information on three hundred and five respondents. Knowledge scores were rated poor, fair and good respectively, Attitude scores were rated negative and positive attitude respectively while perception scores were rated negative and positive perception respectively. Data was analyzed with SPSS version 25 using descriptive statistics and Chi-square test at 5% level of significance. The mean age of respondents was 30.6±6.1 years, the highest level of education for most of the respondents was secondary school(68.5%) and majority were traders(45.2%) with 7.83±4.95 as mean years of marriage. Their mean parity and number of under-five were 2.5±1.4, 1.2±0.4 respectively. Knowledge was generally poor, more than half(53.1%) had poor knowledge, majority(85.3%) have positive attitude while 78.1% have a positive perception. One-fourth(24.6%) and one-fifth are of the opinion that frequent vaccination will make the vaccine ineffective and overload immune system respectively. One-fifth see no need for vaccination if the child is healthy. However, occupation, parity, and type of marriage was significantly associated respectively. There was generally poor knowledge of Supplementary Immunizations, mothers need to be educated on the importance of this Immunizations by all stakeholders.