Determination Of Knowledge, Thought And Attitudes Of Mothers For Childhood Immunization

Authors : Sibel KÜÇÜKOĞLU

Pages : 80-84

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Publication Date : 2019-12-10

Article Type : Conference Paper

Abstract :This study was conducted to determine the knowledge, thoughts and attitudes of mothers about childhood immunization. Methods: The universe of the descriptive type study was created by mothers with children between the ages of 0-2 who were admitted to the child for any reason in the children`s services and neonatal intensive care unit of Selcuk University Medical Faculty Hospital. In the study, the sample size was determined as a result of the power analysis. The study was carried out with 176 mothers by random sampling method. The data were collected using the data collection form and the Vaccine-related Community Attitude-Health Belief Model Scale. Ethical principles were observed during the investigation. Results: It was determined that 12.3% of the mothers who participated in the study found vaccines harmful and 91.3% trusted vaccines. The scale lower size scores insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(except for the perceived obstacle subsize); of mothers who found vaccines harmful were found to be significantly lower. In addition, mothers who thought that vaccination should be mandatory and mothers who thought that vaccination should not be left to parental request, the social attitude-health belief model scale on the vaccine was determined to have significantly higher score averages. insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p<0.05);. Conclusion: As a result of the study, it was determined that the average health responsibility and perceived benefit score scoring was higher in the sub-dimensions of the Vaccine-related Community Attitude-Health Belief Model scale. Some thoughts about vaccines were found to affect attitudes about vaccines. In order to reduce the negative attitude towards vaccines, it is recommended that parents intensify awareness efforts.
Keywords : Immunization, vaccination, vaccine rejection