Effectiveness of Educational Intervention on Knowledge Toward Obligatory Vaccination among Mothers of Under Five Children

Introduction: Since parents' knowledge toward immunization are likely to impact uptake, vaccination is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions for preventing infectious illnesses, and VPD are among the leading causes of illness and death among children worldwide.
Material and methods: An experimental one-group pretest-posttest design was adopted to assess the effectiveness of the educational intervention on knowledge toward obligatory vaccination among mothers of under five children. The study was carried out at a tertiary hospital, Amritsar. A total of 60 samples were involved using convenience sampling technique. Data were collected through demographic proforma and pre-designed knowledge questionnaire on vaccinations Pretest was conducted than educational intervention was implemented, after two weeks posttest was conducted using by same questionnaire. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 26.
Results: The study revealed that pretest mean score of knowledge was 14.67±2.18. The posttest mean score of knowledge was 19.82±4.43. The mean difference was 5.15. Here dependent ‘t’ test was applied to find statistically difference between pre and posttest knowledge score. As result show that t59=9.61, p=0.001 which indicate highly significant.
Conclusion: This study has demonstrated the educational intervention is much effective to improve the knowledge of mothers regarding vaccination of under five year children. The mean knowledge score increased significantly after the intervention.

Key words: Educational intervention, knowledge, vaccination, mothers. .