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ArticleJournal of community health2016

Effects of Community Health Nurse-Led Intervention on Childhood Routine Immunization Completion in Primary Health Care Centers in Ibadan, Nigeria.

V B Brown, O A Oluwatosin, J O Akinyemi, A A Adeyemo

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Article in Journal of community health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 authors.

V B BrownSchool of Nursing, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. vicbrown2010@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6601-4307
O A OluwatosinDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
J O AkinyemiDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
A A AdeyemoNational Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunization coverage of vulnerable children is often sub-optimal in many low- and middle-income countries. The use of a reminder/recall (R/R) system has been one of the strategies shown to be effective in improving immunization rates. In the resent study, we evaluated the effect of R/R and Primary Health Care Immunization Providers' Training (PHCIPT) intervention on routine immunization completion among 595 infants in Ibadan, Nigeria. The design was a group randomized controlled trial with Local Government Area (LGA) being the unit of randomization. Four randomly selected LGAs were randomized to receive a cellphone R/R only (A), a PHCIPT only (B); combined R/R and PHCIPT (C) intervention or serve as a control group (D). Children aged 0-12 weeks were consecutively recruited into each group and followed up for 12 months. The primary outcome measure was routine immunization completion at 12 months of age. At the study endpoint, immunization completion rates were: group A, 98.6 %; group B, 70 %; group C, 97.3 %; and group D, 57.3 %. Compared to the control group, the cellphone R/R group was 72 % (RR 1.72, 95 % CI 1.50-1.98) and the combined RR/PHCIPT group 70 % (RR 1.70, 95 % CI 1.47-1.95) more likely to complete immunization. In contrast, immunization completion in the PHCIPT group was marginally different from the control group (RR 1.22, 95 % CI 1.03-1.45). These findings remained robust to adjustment for potential predictors of immunization completion as covariates. In conclusion, cellphone reminder/recall was effective in improving immunization completion in this Nigerian setting. Its use is recommended for large scale implementation.

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LeadershipNurses, Community HealthPrimary Health CareFemaleHumansImmunizationInfantInfant, NewbornMaleNigeriaPractice Patterns, Nurses'Reminder SystemsSurveys and QuestionnairesCellphone reminder/recallChildhoodImmunizationVaccine-preventable-diseases

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