| Families of children not receiving prophylaxis |
74 (100) |
| Participating in telephone survey |
58 (78) |
| Participating in interview |
16 (22) |
| Correctly identified bleeding as risk of refusal of vitamin K |
51 (69) |
| Refusal of additional preventive services |
| Erythromycin eye ointment |
50 (68) |
| Neonatal hepatitis B vaccine |
69 (93) |
| Refused vitamin K injection, erythromycin eye ointment and neonatal hepatitis B vaccine |
49 (66) |
| Reasons for refusal of vitamin K injection (more than one could be given per family) |
| Not necessary |
39 (53) |
| Desired natural birthing process |
27 (36) |
| Concern about preservatives/ingredients |
14 (19) |
| Adverse reactions |
10 (14) |
| Avoid pain for infant |
8 (11) |
| Concern about dose being too high |
8 (11) |
| Concern that injection causes cancer |
6 (8) |
| Did not want to overwhelm infant immune system |
1 (1) |
