Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Mothers towards Children Immunization during COVID-19 Pandemic | ||||
| Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal | ||||
| Article 6, Volume 19, Issue 2, December 2020, Page 112-126 PDF (485.48 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/tsnj.2020.131966 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Amira Mohamed Saad Mohammed Khalil1; Asmaa Ghareeb Mohamed2 | ||||
| 1Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University Nursing Department, College of Applied Medical science, Hafr Al Batin University | ||||
| 2Assistant Professor of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University. Nursing Department, College of Applied Medical science, Hafr Al Batin University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Parental knowledge, practice, and attitudes towards vaccination are important factors in predicting a child's immunization status especially during COVID quarantine. Aim of the study: This study was conducted to assess mothers' knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding children immunization during COVID Pandemic at Hafr- Al-Batin City. Subjects and method: Descriptive analytical cross-sectional was performed from 30 June 2020 until 25 July 2020. 126 Mothers who had at least one child at the immunization period were included in the study using convenience and snowball sampling methods. An online questionnaire was used by the researchers to obtain the necessary data. This questionnaire consisted of four parts was designed to gather the participants' data. Part 1; Sociodemographic characteristics, Part 2; Mothers’ knowledge about childhood immunizations during COVID 19, Part 3; Mothers’ practices about children's immunizations, and Part 4; Mothers Attitude toward infants’ immunizations during COVID 19 pandemic. Result: slightly less than half (46%) of the mothers has a good level of knowledge. Also, the majority (84.2%) of the mothers had a satisfactory level of practice. 41.3% of the mother disagree that vaccination side effects are dangerous, about two-thirds (65.1%) of them strongly agree that COVID causes a delay in immunization, and about half of them (50.8) strongly agree on fear from going to child Vaccination during COVID. Conclusion: about half of the mothers have a good level of knowledge and the majority of them had a satisfactory level of practice. Moreover, about two-thirds of them strongly agree that COVID causes a delay in immunization. | ||||
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