Abstract
Objective: To know the status of vaccination among children via Expanded Program of Immunization and its
relation with maternal education and awareness of mothers about vaccination.
Study Design: Observational descriptive study.
Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at Shaikh KhalifaBin Zahed Al-Nahyan Hospital
st th Rawalakot from 1 January 2019 to 30 June 2019.
Materials and Methods: Children less than age 05 years, brought to the pediatric outpatient department were
included in the study by consecutive sampling. The vaccination status of these subjects was noted and
confirmed by vaccination card issued to them by the local health authority. A self-designed Performa was filled
by interviewing the mothers; which included detail about mother's and child age, address, socioeconomic
status, education of mother, awareness of mothers regarding preventive role of vaccination and status of
vaccination of child.Data was entered on SPSS version 20 and statistical analysis was done
Results: A total of 397 mothers responded. Out of these 82.9% mothers were educated and 17.1% were
uneducated, 67.2% were aware about the preventive role of vaccination and 32.8% were unaware. Study
showed that 79.3 % children were fully and 1.5% were partially vaccinated, whereas 19.1 % were unvaccinated.
Vaccination rate was 85% among children where mothers were aware about the preventive role of vaccination,
as compared to 67.7% children of unaware mothers (p<0.0001). Statistically no significant association was
found between maternal education and status of vaccination (p=0.072).
Conclusion: Vaccination status of children is not satisfactory in Azad Kashmir. The status of vaccination among
the children is directly related to the awareness of mothers about the preventive role of vaccination
Sadiq Hussain, Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Nadeem, Shazia Siddiq, Raja Imtiaz Ahmed, Irum Javed. (2020) Immunization Status of Children: A Study at Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Hospital Rawalakot Azad Kashmir, Journal of Islamic International Medical College, Volume-15, Issue-3.
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