Adenike Olugbenga-Bello, Adejumoke Jimoh, Olufunmi Oke, Ridwan Oladejo
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), P.M.B. 4400, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria.
Federal Medical center, Keffi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.
Pan Afr Med J. 2017 Mar 20;26:159. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2017.26.159.11530. eCollection 2017.
Routine immunization coverage in Nigeria is one of the lowest national coverage rates in the world. The objective of this study was to compare the mother' characteristics and the child's Immunization status in some selected rural and urban communities in the North central part of Nigeria.
A descriptive cross sectional study, using a multistage sampling technique to select 600 respondent women with an index child between 0-12 months.
Mean age of rural respondents was 31.40±7.21 years and 32.72+6.77 years among urban respondents, though there was no statistically significant difference in age between the 2 locations (p-0.762). One hundred and ninetyseven (65.7%) and 241(80.3%) of rural and urban respondents respectively were aware of immunization, the difference was statistically significant (p-0.016). knowledge in urban areas was better than among rural respondents. There was statistically significant association between respondents age, employment status, mothers' educational status and the child's immunization status (P<0.05), while variables like parity, age at marriage, marital status, No of children, household income and place of index were not statistically associated with immunization status as P>0.05. More than half 179(59.7%) of rural and 207(69.0%) of urban had good practice of immunization though the difference was not statistically significant (p-0.165).
The immunization coverage in urban community was better than that of the rural community. The result of this study has clearly indicated that mothers in Nigeria have improved on taking their children for immunization in both rural and urban area compared to previous reports.
尼日利亚的常规免疫接种覆盖率是世界上最低的国家覆盖率之一。本研究的目的是比较尼日利亚中北部一些选定的农村和城市社区中母亲的特征和儿童的免疫接种状况。
采用描述性横断面研究，使用多阶段抽样技术选取600名有0至12个月龄指标儿童的受访妇女。
农村受访者的平均年龄为31.40±7.21岁，城市受访者为32.72±6.77岁，尽管两个地区的年龄差异无统计学意义（p = 0.762）。农村和城市受访者中分别有197人（65.7%）和241人（80.3%）知晓免疫接种，差异具有统计学意义（p = 0.016）。城市地区的知晓情况优于农村受访者。受访者的年龄、就业状况、母亲的教育状况与儿童的免疫接种状况之间存在统计学意义的关联（P<0.05），而诸如胎次、结婚年龄、婚姻状况、子女数量、家庭收入和指标儿童所在地点等变量与免疫接种状况无统计学关联，因为P>0.05。超过一半的农村受访者（179人，59.7%）和城市受访者（207人，69.0%）有良好的免疫接种习惯，尽管差异无统计学意义（p = 0.165）。
城市社区的免疫接种覆盖率优于农村社区。本研究结果清楚地表明，与之前的报告相比，尼日利亚农村和城市地区的母亲在带孩子进行免疫接种方面都有了改善。
