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Problems Associated With Immunization Of Children Among The Illiterate Mothers
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Some parent know where and how to obtain it but do not take their
children to the clinic for immunization while others that made attempts
to take their children to the clinic for immunization may start and will
not complete the normal dose they are supposed to give to that child.
In a particular health center, i.e. Ikpoba Okha Health center in Edo
State, between January 2007 to December 2010, fifty six thousand six
hundred and forty two (56,642) children were registered for different
types of immunization. Out of these only thirty four thousand six
hundred and twenty two (34, 622) children completed their immunization,
the remaining twenty two thousand and twenty (22,020) fall to complete
their immunization. Some mothers later brought their children to
complete their immunization after a long time. When they asked them why
they did not bring their children ever since, the most population reason
they gave was that, they were not chanced due to their jobs. They
devoted much time to their jobs e.g. trading, government workers etc
others said they came several times but in most occasions, the nurses
asked them to go home that the health of their babies was poor.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The
decision to carry out the study was due to the problem associated with
immunization of children among the illiterate mothers in Esan West Local
Government Area. In the past, many children died before the age of 5 or
before the school age due to communicable diseases e.g. tuberculosis,
diphtheria, poliomyelitis, whooping cough, measles, tetanus etc. they
did not know that these disease could be prevented. These communicable
disease were discovered by scientific researcher, clinics are
established where the disease can be prevented by treatment. Many
people are not still making use of the clinic and health center, perhaps
due to ignorance, inability of mothers to get the facilities or non
availability of vaccine or lack of understanding.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
This
research work is an attempt to study the attitude of mothers towards
immunization in Esan West Local Government Area in Edo State. The
purpose of this study is to:
To find out why mothers refused to bring their children for immunization
To know why some mothers started but refuse to complete the normal schedule
To
know or find out how many children register in the clinic and health
center for the immunization during the period of January 2010 to
December 2010.
To know the number of children who started the immunization and completed the normal schedule
To know the number of children that started the immunization but refuse to complete it.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study is attempted to provide a general information and knowledge about the problems associated with immunization among illiterate mother in Esan West Local Government Area from the findings, it was observed that ignorance and inability of mothers to get their child immunized lead to death of children so government area advised to explain the main importance of immunization to mothers in order to increase the rate of immunization. ... Continue reading---
