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Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify the information status of the mothers of children who apply to the state and university hospitals in Kars on childhood routine vaccines and the factors that affect it. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted by a total of 376 mothers from two centers. A hundred-to-face interview was carried out. The vaccines in the current vaccine calendar were identified by the mother's knowledge status by questioning one by one. Knowing at least eight of nine vaccines was considered a high score. The variable, sociodemographic and biodemographic characteristics that the mothers obtained from these questions were regarded as independent variables. The findings: 27.7% of mothers were the most known BCG vaccine while they knew all vaccines (94.9%). The mother’s vaccination information status and the family type, the form of marriage, the mother’s educational status, whether or not the mother’s vaccination was given information and whether the mother’s child’s weight was remembered (p<0,05), the logistic regression was done when the child’s weight was known the condition of more than 3 times the form of marriage was not visible and the medical staff’s information about the vaccination was 1.9 times the highest information status was related to 1.8 times the highest information status. Result: Some childhood vaccines are low-known by mothers. For more informed mothers about vaccines, it is necessary educated mothers who are awarenessful of their baby, able to make their own decisions. The medical staff who vaccinates are also responsible for this.

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