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A study to assess the Knowledge and perceptions of women on vaccine preventable diseases. Mrs. FAUZIA JAWAID KAZI, Assistant Professor, KGMU-Institute of Nursing, Lucknow, India.
A significant improvement in the health
of an intervention programme in the
status of children has been achieved since
knowledge and perceptions and to find out
the attainment of independence. Inspite of
the socioeconomic and psychological factors
active efforts, a large number of children
affecting the knowledge, perceptions and
still
of
practices. The study was conducted in slum
immunization. One of the important reasons
areas (udupi) of karnataka state. Young
for the failure of immunization was lack of
mothers were taken as the respondents in
information and superstitious beliefs and
this study. Knowledge, perceptions and
practices
practices were studied as the dependent
remain
without
ofmothers.
protection
For
making
immunization programme successful, it is
variables.
essential to break down the barriers of
preventable
ignorance, prejudices, mis-conceptions and
children,
dangerous traditional practices among the
cough and measles were included in the
people and provide learning experience
study. The quasi-experimental design was
which favourably influence their knowledge,
used to study the effects of the intervention
perceptions and practices.
program.
Keeping this in view this study was planned to
find
out
the
existing
knowledge,
perceptions and practices of newly married women
regarding
vaccine
preventable
diseases among children, to study the effect
Three
important
diseases
namely,
The
vaccine
prevalent
diphtheria,
results
among
whooping
indicated
the
knowledge of the respondents about these three
diseases
i.e.,whooping
cough,
diphtheria and measles was extremely poor. There was no significant difference between two groups on any of the variables except
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that the respondents of control group had
intervention was higher than that of the
better mass media exposure than the
control group for all the three diseases.
respondents of experimental group. The post-intervention
knowledge
of
the
respondents of experimental group was higher than the pre-intervention knowledge on all the three diseases. The gain in the knowledge
of
the
respondents
of
experimental group after intervention was higher than that of the control group for all the three diseases. There was no difference in the pre-intervention perception scores of the respondents of experimental and control group for all the three diseases. The postintervention
perception
scores
of
the
respondents of experimental group was higher than the pre-intervention perception scores on all the three diseases. The gain in the perceptions of the respondents of experimental group after intervention was
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higher than that of the control group for all the
three
diseases.
interventionpractice
scores
The
postof
the
respondents of experimental group was higher than that of the control group for all the diseases. The gain in the practices of the respondents of experimental group after
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