Table 3.
Variable | Category | Frequency | Percent (%) |
---|---|---|---|
Heard about vaccination and vaccine preventable disease | Yes | 223 | 69.3 |
No | 99 | 30.7 | |
| |||
Source of information | Friend | 21 | 6.5 |
Television | 79 | 24.5 | |
Radio | 104 | 32.3 | |
School | 37 | 11.5 | |
Health worker | 80 | 24.8 | |
Other | 1 | 0.3 | |
| |||
Objectives of vaccination | To prevent disease | 212 | 65.8 |
For healthy child | 6 | 1.9 | |
It has no benefit | 17 | 5.3 | |
Do not know | 87 | 27.0 | |
| |||
Number of vaccine-preventable diseases known | Know one | 19 | 5.9 |
Know two | 56 | 17.4 | |
Know three | 89 | 27.6 | |
Know four | 68 | 21.1 | |
Know five | 1 | 0.3 | |
I do not know | 89 | 27.7 | |
| |||
The age at which child start routine EPI service | Just after birth | 17 | 5.3 |
6 weeks after | 200 | 62.1 | |
Any time | 102 | 31.7 | |
After one year | 1 | 0.3 | |
Do not know | 2 | 0.6 | |
| |||
Number of sessions required to complete routine EPI services | One | 11 | 3.4 |
Two | 87 | 27.0 | |
Three | 45 | 14.0 | |
Four | 178 | 55.3 | |
| |||
The age at which child completes routine EPI services | 6–8 month | 45 | 14.0 |
9 month | 276 | 85.7 |