Awareness On Immunization Among Mothers Of Underfive Children

Immunizations is one the best indicators to evaluate the health outcomes and services distributed across social and economic groups. Childhood immunization almost guarantees protection from many major diseases. Prevention of disease is the need of the day. The present study aimed to assess   the   knowledge   of   mothers of under five children on immunization in selected hospital at Mangalore. The objective of the study is to assess the level of knowledge of mothers on immunization with a view to develop an information booklet. The study design was non-experimental exploration survey. The sample comprised of 30 mothers of under five children, who were visited Yenepoya hospital, Mangalore.  The data was collected by using baseline proforma and structured knowledge questionnaire. Overall result had shows that 30% of mothers had poor knowledge, 43.4% of mothers had average knowledge, 23.4% of mothers had good knowledge and 3.33 mothers had excellent knowledge. There is no significant association between knowledge score and selected demographic variables such as age of mother (χ2= 1.28), religion (χ2= 0.09), educational status (χ2= 7.03), monthly income (χ2= 0.65), occupational status (χ2= 0.32), source of information (χ2= 10.1), and exposure to mass media (χ2= 3.01). There was asignificant association between knowledge and exposure to mass media in relation to immunization among  mothers of under five children