A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY ON AWARENESS, PRACTICE AND ATTITUDE ON IMMUNIZATION (POLIO CAMPAIGN) HELD UNDER MAYO HOSPITAL, LAHORE

Objective: To identify the mothers’ attitude, knowledge and practices while they carry out scheduled immunisation and to determine the factors responsible for unsatisfied campaign of Polio. Methods: The place of this cross-sectional study was the carried out at Mayo Hospital, Lahore (Paediatrics Department) from April 16, 2016 – 18th May, 2017. Non-probability convenience was the sampling used to conduct it. 210 was its sample size. Mothers who were on a scheduled immunization and were accompanying with children under the age of 05 years were the part of this study. Women having linguistics issues, other than local region, the ones with critically sick child were dropped from the study. Results: The most rampant reason (95 percent) for completion of vaccination was "Mandatory for child health". The most prevailing reason for incomplete vaccination was missing of the card of vaccination (33 percent). Misconception about the polio campaigns was the most common reason to refuse the vaccination (22 percent). 96 percent (202) of the respondents expressed the view that major killer diseases can be protected by the scheduled vaccination. 94 percent (190) of the cases favoured the scheduled immunization. 99 percent (208) of the cases presented their children for scheduled immunization on regular basis. 99.58 percent was the coverage of scheduled vaccination of polio. Conclusion: A large number of respondents expressed the view that major killer diseases can be protected by the scheduled vaccination. They also thought that campaigns of polio are part and parcel to root out the disease. Since most of them had favoured the scheduled vaccination, as a result, they kept on bringing their children for vaccination. Ambiguities about the polio disease are the greatest impediment to eliminate the disease. This is the reason behind unproductive NID Polio coverage. Keywords: Oral Polio virus vaccine, routine immunization, Polio, vaccinatio