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ASSESS THE PERCEIVED HEALTH BELIEFS AMONG MOTHERS OF INFANTS ON ADHERENCE TO VACCINATION

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Vaccine is one of the most significant contributions of the medical fraternity to humanity. The study was aimed to evaluate the association between perceived health beliefs among mothers’ of infants regarding adherence to vaccination and behaviour of these mothers regarding vaccination of their infants. Cross sectional Descriptive Research Design was used in this study. The study participants were chosen by Non-Probability convenient sampling technique. We conducted 115 mothers to participate in the study and filled out the following questionnaires: Demographic variables of mothers with infants, Perceived health beliefs of mother on vaccination and Vaccination behaviour of mothers of infant. The vaccination adherence were appraised by checking infant vaccination cards.The descriptive statistics was used to organize the data and to examine the quantum of information and inferential statistics was used to determine the relationship. Findings of the study shows that most of mothers 57(49.57%) were in the age group of 26 – 30 years, 44(38.26%) of infants were in the age group of 21 – 24 months, 70(60.87%) of fathers were graduates, 78(67.83%) of mothers were graduates, 114(99.13%) of fathers were employed, 88(76.52%) of mothers were unemployed, 66(57.39%) responded that their infant get sick often and 96(83.48%) had responded that their infants had no history of hospital .Mother’s level of perceived health belief revealed that 60(52.17%) were strongly perceived, 51(44.35%) were moderately perceived , only 4(3.48%) were poorly perceived and that maximum 69(60%) used to take their infants for vaccination to private hospital, 68 (51%) came to know about vaccination through doctor 47 (49%) came to know about vaccination through nurse, 100(86.96%) were well adhered to vaccination and 15(13.04%) were partially adhered to vaccination among mothers of infants. We found between perceived health belief and adherence to vaccination shows a moderate positive correlation which was found to be statistically significant at p<0.001 level.

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Infants vaccination; Health belief model; Mothers

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"ASSESS THE PERCEIVED HEALTH BELIEFS AMONG MOTHERS OF INFANTS ON ADHERENCE TO VACCINATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.624-634, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906869.pdf

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"ASSESS THE PERCEIVED HEALTH BELIEFS AMONG MOTHERS OF INFANTS ON ADHERENCE TO VACCINATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp624-634, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906869.pdf

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Published Paper ID: JETIR1906869
Registration ID: 214814
Published In: Volume 6 | Issue 6 | Year June-2019
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.21422
Page No: 624-634
Country: Chennai , Tamilnadu, India .
Area: Other
ISSN Number: 2349-5162
Publisher: IJ Publication


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