Impact of educational intervention for improving Malaysian parents’ knowledge towards their children immunization
Background: Parents are the primary health decision-maker for their children. This fact makes parents’ knowledge regarding immunization in general has great impact on their children immunization status. Aims: To assess the knowledge of parents in Malaysia towards their children immunization and t...
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iium-412092018-06-20T01:29:48Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/41209/ Impact of educational intervention for improving Malaysian parents’ knowledge towards their children immunization Awadh, Ammar Ihsan JawaD Hassali, Mohamed Azmi Al-lela, Omer Qutaiba Bux, Siti Halimah Elkalmi, Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod Ab. Hadi, Hazrina RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine RJ101 Child Health. Child health services Background: Parents are the primary health decision-maker for their children. This fact makes parents’ knowledge regarding immunization in general has great impact on their children immunization status. Aims: To assess the knowledge of parents in Malaysia towards their children immunization and to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational seminar for improving parents’ knowledge towards their children immunization. Methods: A cross-sectional study using pre- and post- intervention design was conducted with a sample of 73parents. Changes in knowledge scores before and after the educational seminar were measured. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used whenever appropriate. Frequencies and percentages were used to describe the respondents’ demographic information. Wilcoxon Signed ranks test and The McNemar χ2 test were applied to compare the differences in knowledge before and after the seminar whenever appropriate. Results: Seventy three parents agreed to participate in this educational seminar, majority of them were mothers (n= 64; 87.7%). A comparison of parents’ knowledge before and immediately after the implementation of the educational seminar showed significant differences. The mean ± standard deviation (SD) of the Knowledge scores of immunization significantly increased compared to the baseline following the intervention 12.60±2.69 to 16.03±1.87 (p<0.001), the possible score in knowledge domain ranged from zero to 20. Conclusion: Parents’ knowledge towards immunization improved significantly after the educational intervention. Therefore, introducing educational programs for parents to improve their knowledge about immunization is needed. 2014-04 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/41209/1/IMPACT_OF_EDUCATIONAL_INTERVENTION_FOR_IMPROVING_MALAYSIAN_PARENTS%E2%80%99_KNOWLEDGE.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/41209/4/Ammar.pdf Awadh, Ammar Ihsan JawaD and Hassali, Mohamed Azmi and Al-lela, Omer Qutaiba and Bux, Siti Halimah and Elkalmi, Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod and Ab. Hadi, Hazrina (2014) Impact of educational intervention for improving Malaysian parents’ knowledge towards their children immunization. In: 5th FIP Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress 2014, 13th-16th April 2014, Melbourne, Australia. (Unpublished) http://www.fip.org/pswc2014/Melbourne/2033/Welcome/ |
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RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine RJ101 Child Health. Child health services Awadh, Ammar Ihsan JawaD Hassali, Mohamed Azmi Al-lela, Omer Qutaiba Bux, Siti Halimah Elkalmi, Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod Ab. Hadi, Hazrina Impact of educational intervention for improving Malaysian parents’ knowledge towards their children immunization |
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Background:
Parents are the primary health decision-maker for their children. This fact makes parents’ knowledge regarding immunization in general has great impact on their children immunization status.
Aims:
To assess the knowledge of parents in Malaysia towards their children immunization and to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational seminar for improving parents’ knowledge towards their children immunization.
Methods:
A cross-sectional study using pre- and post- intervention design was conducted with a sample of 73parents. Changes in knowledge scores before and after the educational seminar were measured. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used whenever appropriate. Frequencies and percentages were used to describe the respondents’ demographic information. Wilcoxon Signed ranks test and The McNemar χ2 test were applied to compare the differences in knowledge before and after the seminar whenever appropriate.
Results:
Seventy three parents agreed to participate in this educational seminar, majority of them were mothers (n= 64; 87.7%). A comparison of parents’ knowledge before and immediately after the implementation of the educational seminar showed significant differences. The mean ± standard deviation (SD) of the Knowledge scores of immunization significantly increased compared to the baseline following the intervention 12.60±2.69 to 16.03±1.87 (p<0.001), the possible score in knowledge domain ranged from zero to 20.
Conclusion:
Parents’ knowledge towards immunization improved significantly after the educational intervention. Therefore, introducing educational programs for parents to improve their knowledge about immunization is needed.
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