Shaarani Issam, Khadem Sleiman, Obeid Marwa, Saadieh Behnaz, Serhal Aya, Zakkour Karim, Mohammad Sara, Berjaoui Hussein, Izmirli Nour
Faculty of Medicine, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon.
BMC Public Health. 2025 Jan 8;25(1):99. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-21290-w.
Vaccines have contributed to the disappearance of various diseases, and almost eradicated others across the world. Studies have shown that in Lebanon a profoundly small percentage of Syrian refugee children were fully immunized by routine vaccination services. Exploring the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of parents towards vaccination is of crucial importance, given the role of parents in children's immunization. This study aims to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the Syrian refugee mothers in Lebanon towards the immunization of their children.
This is a cross-sectional study conducted using questionnaires targeting Syrian refugee mothers whose children were born on Lebanese grounds, are below the age of five, and are following the Lebanese vaccination schedule.
Majority of refugee mothers considered vaccination to be safe (89.9%) and stated that vaccination should be initiated at birth (87.2%). Almost all of the interviewed mothers plan to vaccinate their children according to the National Lebanese Vaccination Schedule. Concerning the children's immunization status, 51.4% of Syrian refugee children were fully immunized and 48.6% had aberrant vaccination.
Although refugee mothers had some knowledge gaps regarding vaccines, the main issue lies within the accessibility. A collaborative coordinated approach involving governmental and non-governmental agencies seems to be an effective approach to improve rates of immunization.
疫苗促使多种疾病消失，并在全球范围内几乎根除了其他一些疾病。研究表明，在黎巴嫩，通过常规疫苗接种服务完全免疫的叙利亚难民儿童比例极低。鉴于父母在儿童免疫接种中的作用，探究父母对疫苗接种的知识、态度和做法至关重要。本研究旨在调查黎巴嫩叙利亚难民母亲对其子女免疫接种的知识、态度和做法。
这是一项横断面研究，采用问卷调查法，针对在黎巴嫩出生、年龄在五岁以下且遵循黎巴嫩疫苗接种计划的叙利亚难民母亲。
大多数难民母亲认为疫苗接种是安全的（89.9%），并表示应在出生时开始接种疫苗（87.2%）。几乎所有受访母亲都计划按照黎巴嫩国家疫苗接种计划为子女接种疫苗。关于儿童的免疫接种状况，51.4%的叙利亚难民儿童已完全免疫，48.6%的儿童接种情况异常。
尽管难民母亲在疫苗方面存在一些知识差距，但主要问题在于可及性。政府和非政府机构合作协调的方法似乎是提高免疫接种率的有效途径。
