Table 3. Timeliness of vaccination of children with sickle cell disease, for those who received all required doses of each vaccine type, by child age, residence and maternal demographics. Only modest levels of timeliness were found, defined as receipt within 60 days of scheduled vaccination, without association by demographics.

Of children completing doses for each of the four vaccine types, a mean of 61.8% vaccine types were received within 60 days beyond the required age. Demographic features are compared within each category.

	All 10 Required n = 42 (%)	P value	3 Polio n = 88 (%)	P value	3 PV n = 95 (%)	P value	3 PCV-10 n = 57 (%)	P value	Measles, n = 88 (%)	P value
Total with timely vaccination	17 (40.5)*		54 (61.4)		70 (73.7)		39 (68.4)		60 (68.2)
Child’s Age (months)		0.06		0.96		0.92		0.07		0.08
0–23	9 (42.8)		25 (71.4)		29 (74.4)		26 (74.3)		22 (78.6)
24–47	5 (27.8)		24 (72.7)		25 (71.4)		9 (50.0)		21 (55.3)
48–71	3 (100.0)		15 (75.0)		16 (76.2)		4 (100.0)		17 (77.3)
Residence		0.86		0.51		0.28		0.76		0.77
Kampala	10 (41.7)		29 (76.3)		34 (79.1)		20 (66.7)		28 (66.7)
Outside Kampala	7 (38.9)		35 (70.0)		36 (69.2)		19 (70.4)		32 (69.6)
Maternal Education		0.17		0.11		0.31		0.70		0.24
Up to primary school	4 (40.0)		15 (60.0)		18 (64.3)		10 (62.5)		19 (67.8)
Up to secondary school	5 (27.8)		32 (72.7)		35 (74.5)		18 (66.7)		25 (62.5)
Up to university	8 (61.5)		16 (88.9)		16 (84.2)		10 (76.9)		16 (84.2)
Mother’s Employment Status		0.57		0.51		0.31		0.38		0.65
Employed	9 (45.0)		37 (75.7)		39 (78.0)		20 (74.1)		29 (65.9)
Unemployed	8 (36.4)		27 (69.2)		31 (68.9)		19 (63.3)		31 (70.5)
Maternal religion		0.66		0.66		0.93		0.16		0.40
Christian	12 (42.8)		45 (71.4)		51 (73.9)		29 (74.4)		42 (65.6)
Muslim	5 (35.7)		19 (76.0)		19 (73.1)		10 (55.6)		18 (75.0)

Vaccine abbreviations: PV: Pentavalent (DPT-HepB-Hib) PC: Pneumococcal (PCV-10)

^*Chi-square test may not a valid test for those who received all 10 vaccines due to insufficient size.