Alyami, A., Alhashan, G., Nasser, I., Alyami, S., Al Mardhamah, N., Alyami, M., Alyami, A., Alqahtani, M., Alwadei, B., Alanazi, A. (2018). Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices of Parents towards Childhood. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 70(1), 1-7. doi: 10.12816/0042954
Atheer R. Alyami; Ghadi M. Alhashan; Iman A. Nasser; Sarah R. Alyami; Norah H. Al Mardhamah; Maram H. Alyami; Ahlam Y.S. Alyami; Manar H. Alqahtani; Batool M. Alwadei; Aljouharah M. Alanazi. "Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices of Parents towards Childhood". The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 70, 1, 2018, 1-7. doi: 10.12816/0042954
Alyami, A., Alhashan, G., Nasser, I., Alyami, S., Al Mardhamah, N., Alyami, M., Alyami, A., Alqahtani, M., Alwadei, B., Alanazi, A. (2018). 'Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices of Parents towards Childhood', The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 70(1), pp. 1-7. doi: 10.12816/0042954
Alyami, A., Alhashan, G., Nasser, I., Alyami, S., Al Mardhamah, N., Alyami, M., Alyami, A., Alqahtani, M., Alwadei, B., Alanazi, A. Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices of Parents towards Childhood. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2018; 70(1): 1-7. doi: 10.12816/0042954
Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices of Parents towards Childhood
Background: vaccinations play an important role in protecting children against life threatening infections. During the past years, parents expressed concerns about the safety of routine vaccinations; resulting in non-compliance. Objective: this study aimed to assess the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of parents towards vaccinations and the effects on vaccination practice in Najran region. Methods: this is a cross sectional study was carried out by distributing questionnaire among the general public in Najran City, Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire consisted of the following sections: demographic profile, knowledge, beliefs, behaviors and open-ended questions regarding vaccination. Results: 668 parents were participated in this study; out of them 61.8% reported compliance with the vaccination schedule. Factors that were significantly associated with compliance included older age (p = 0.001), high education (p = 0.022) and better knowledge of the benefits of immunization. The main concerns about vaccinations were fear of weakening the child's immunity and non-necessity of some vaccinations. Causes that prevented compliance with vaccinations were lack of knowledge about their benefits (48.1%), illness of the child at time of vaccination (13.5%), travel (9.6%) and fear of side effects (7.7%). Sources of information that effectively changed parent’s attitude included flyers (31.4%), social media (26.8%) and TV (25.9%). Conclusion: most parents had an acceptable and good knowledge of the importance of vaccinations. However, fears and misconceptions resulted in non-compliance of a substantial percentage of the responders. Educational programs should address these causes of non-compliance and stress the importance of routine child vaccinations to improve knowledge, beliefs and attitude of parents.
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