Abstract:

The aim was to identify parents, childhood vaccine information levels, their children’s vaccination conditions and the factors affecting them, to gain awareness of immunity and, as a result, to increase child vaccination. In the study, which is a prospective cutting-edge identification type, between 12.05.2020-12.06.2020 dates, the parents who apply to the Family Medicine Clinic of the Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, on childhood vaccines, the level of information questioning the survey was applied to the face. G*power 3.1.0 program calculated Power Analysis effect you 0.5; the number of samples required for 95% power at the 5% significance level was found to be 224 SPSS software was used for cutting analysis and p <0.05 was considered meaningful. 261 parents were included in the study. 58.1% of parents said that the Ministry of Health was aware of the childhood vaccination calendar, and 62.4% said that the information was received from the doctor. The most frequently known vaccines of hepatitis B were 58,2 percent, 52,0 percent and 49,0 percent BCG vaccines, respectively. It has been observed that the age and educational levels of mothers significantly affect the state of timely vaccination (p = 0,012 and p = 0,000 respectively). It has been found that parents have influenced the level of learning to get vaccinations in time (p = 0,006). The result: Most of the parents who participated in our study found that they were aware of the vaccines and the vaccine calendar and the most important information sources were health institutions, primarily doctors. About 0.8 percent of participants found refusal to vaccinate, and 1.9 percent observed a doubt at the point of vaccination. It is believed that it is important to provide more information about immunity in health institutions.

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