Table 5.
Determinants of immunization timeliness
| Variables | Timeliness | Unadjusted OR (95% CI) |
Unadjusted P value | Adjusted OR (95% CI) |
Adjusted P value |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | ||||||
| Yes | No | |||||
| < 30 years | 165 (73) | 61 (27) | 0.9 (0.6–1.5) | 0.9 | ||
| > 30 years | 128 (76.6) | 46 (26.4) | ||||
| Level of education | ||||||
| None/Primary | 26 (72.2) | 10 (27.8) | 0.9 (0.4–2) | 0.9 | ||
| Secondary/Higher | 267 (73.4) | 97 (26.6) | ||||
| Mother’s profession | ||||||
| Employed | 192 (73) | 71 (27) | 0.9 (0.6–1.5) | 0.9 | ||
| Unemployed | 101 (73.7) | 36 (26.3) | ||||
| Matrimonial status | ||||||
| Single | 65 (77.4) | 19 (22.6) | 1.3 (0.7–2.3) | 0.3 | ||
| Couple | 228 (72.2) | 88 (27.8) | ||||
| Religion | ||||||
| Christian | 239 (73.3) | 98 (26.7) | 1 (0.5–2.3) | 0.9 | ||
| Muslim | 24 (72.7) | 9 (27.3) | ||||
| Parity | ||||||
| Primipara | 105 (72.9) | 39 (27.1) | 0.9 (0.6–1.5) | 0.9 | ||
| Multipara | 188 (73.4) | 68 (26.6) | ||||
| Distance from home to vaccination unit | ||||||
| < 5 Km | 149 (74.9) | 50 (25.1) | 1.2 (0.8–1.8) | 0.5 | ||
| > 5 Km | 144 (71.6) | 57 (28.4) | ||||
| Father’s profession | ||||||
| Employed | 287 (73.4) | 104 (26.6) | 1.4 (0.3–5.6) | 0.7 | ||
| Unemployed | 6 (66.7) | 3 (33.3) | ||||
| Place of birth | ||||||
| YGOPH | 221 (75.9) | 70 (24.1) | 1.6 (1.01–2.6) | 0.04 | 1.01 (0.9–3.3) | 1 |
| Others | 72 (66.1) | 37 (33.9) | ||||
| Gestation age | ||||||
| Term | 286 (81) | 67 (19) | 24.4 (10.5–56.8) | < 0.001 | 19.3 (8.1–46.1) | < 0.001 |
| Premature | 7 (14.9) | 40 (85.1) | ||||
| Place vaccination started | ||||||
| YGOPH | 261 (74.8) | 88 (25.2) | 1.8 (0.9–3.3) | 0.07 | ||
| Others | 32 (62.7) | 19 (37.3) | ||||
| Usual place of vaccination | ||||||
| YGOPH | 252 (75.2) | 83 (24.8) | 1.8 (1.01–3.1) | 0.04 | 2.1 (0.9–4.6) | 0.08 |
| Others | 41 (63.1) | 24 (36.9) | ||||