ArticleAfrican health sciences2014
Rural-urban disparities in maternal immunization knowledge and childhood health-seeking behavior in Nigeria: a mixed method study.
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- Vaccine wastage rates and attributed factors in rural and urban areas in Uganda: Case of Mukono and Kalungu districts.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Factors associated with immunization status among children aged 12-59 months in Lagelu local government area, Ibadan: a cross-sectional study.The Pan African medical journal · 2024Review
- A structural equation modelling approach to understanding the determinants of childhood vaccination in Nigeria, Uganda and Guinea.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- A retrospective review of vaccine wastage and associated risk factors in the Littoral region of Cameroon during 2016-2017.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Mothers' Healthcare Autonomy, Maternal-Health Utilization and Healthcare for Children under-3 Years: Analysis of the Nigeria DHS Data (2008-2018).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Health-seeking behavior and waste management practices among women in major urban markets in Owerri, Nigeria.AIMS public health · 2020Article
- Rural-urban comparison of routine immunization utilization and its determinants in communities in Anambra States, Nigeria.SAGE open medicine · 2019Article
- Ending preventable maternal and child deaths in western Nigeria: Do women utilize the life lines?PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundImmunization and appropriate health-seeking behavior are effective strategies to reduce child deaths.
objectivesTo compare maternal knowledge about immunization, use of growth chart and childhood health-seeking behavior in rural and urban areas.
methodsA cross-sectional comparative study done in Lagos, Nigeria. Questionnaire survey and focus group discussions were done. 300 respondents were selected by multi-stage sampling while discussants were purposively selected.
resultsAwareness of immunization was high but knowledge of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) was poor in both areas. Urban women utilized preventive services more; growth monitoring (p<0.001) and immunization (p<0.001) while higher proportions of rural women utilized nutritional counseling (p=0.005) and treatment of illness (p<0.001). Growth chart utilization was better in the urban areas (p<0.001). Increasing maternal education increased use of growth chart in both areas. Both groups of women use multiple treatment sources for children (more in urban), determined by cost, time, perceived severity of illness and type of ailment (urban) and peculiarity of illness (rural). There is a preference for orthodox care in the rural area.
conclusionsKnowledge of VPDs was poor and multiple treatment sources were common among rural and urban women. Education is vital to improve immunization knowledge and health-seeking behavior in both areas.
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