Maternal health literacy and factors associated with incomplete immunization status of under two year children in Jhapa district of Nepal
Issued Date
2024
Copyright Date
2018
Language
eng
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application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
xi, 105 leaves : ill., maps
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open access
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ผลงานนี้เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล ขอสงวนไว้สำหรับเพื่อการศึกษาเท่านั้น ต้องอ้างอิงแหล่งที่มา ห้ามดัดแปลงเนื้อหา และห้ามนำไปใช้เพื่อการค้า
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Mahidol University
Bibliographic Citation
Thesis (M.P.H.M. (Primary Health Care Management))--Mahidol University, 2018
Suggested Citation
Ashfaque Raza Mikrani, 1987- Maternal health literacy and factors associated with incomplete immunization status of under two year children in Jhapa district of Nepal. Thesis (M.P.H.M. (Primary Health Care Management))--Mahidol University, 2018. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/91737
Title
Maternal health literacy and factors associated with incomplete immunization status of under two year children in Jhapa district of Nepal
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Abstract
Immunization is known as the one of the most cost-effective public health interventions which helps to decrease the burden of child mortality and vaccine preventable diseases. Nearly one quarter of the world children are not protected from the common preventable disease. Globally almost 1.5 million of children die every year from the disease which is preventable by the vaccination. A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out to identify the health literacy status of mothers and to examine the association between health literacy of mother and incomplete immunization status of under two-year children. Multistage cluster sampling was used to select 398 mothers having under two-year children. Face to face interview was conducted using structured questionnaires. Chi-square test and multiple logistic regression were used to examine the association between the dependent and independent variables. The results showed that 29.9% had incomplete immunization and 70.1% had complete immunization. For the functional health literacy, 49.2% of mothers had marginal HL, 42.3% of mother had adequate HL, and 8.5% of mother had inadequate HL. For communicative health literacy, 65.1% of mother had marginal HL, 31.9% of mother had adequate HL, and 3% of mother had inadequate HL. For critical health literacy, 54.8% of mothers had marginal HL, 40.7% of mother had adequate HL, and 4.5% of mother had inadequate HL. In multiple logistic regression analysis, child age (AOR: 1.81 95%CI: 1.15-2.85), critical health literacy (AOR: 2.83 95%CI: 1.7-4.78), and knowledge (AOR: 1.71 95%CI: 1.06-2.74) were associated with the immunization status (p-value<0.05). The findings of this study suggest that in order to decrease the percentage of incomplete immunization, community-based health education is necessary which will increase the knowledge and health literacy level of mothers.
Description
Primary Health Care Management (Mahidol University 2018)
Degree Name
Master of Primary Health Care Management
Degree Level
Master's degree
Degree Department
ASEAN Institute for Health Development
Degree Discipline
Primary Health Care Management
Degree Grantor(s)
Mahidol University