A Study to Assess the Awareness Regarding Immunization among Mothers Attending Visits at Teerthanker Mahaveer Hospital, Moradabad, U.P.

Abstract

To assess the level of awareness regarding immunization and to find out the association between the level of awareness regarding immunization among the mothers with the selected demographical variables. The target population for the study was the mothers in under the age group of 20–40 years. Total 100 samples were selected using the convenient sampling technique. Multiple-choice questions including socio-demographic performa was used to assess the level of awareness regarding immunization on the mothers attending visits at the TMU Hospitals, Moradabad. Majority of the mothers among immunization have moderate level of awareness (58%), and (23%) have low level of awareness and the remaining (19%) have high level of awareness regarding Immunization. There was a significant association between the level of awareness regarding Immunization among mothers and with their selected demographical variable was found (age, type of family and educational status) at 0.005 level of significant. This study concluded that mothers having moderate level of awareness on September 2019 in Teerthanker Mahaveer Hospital at Moradabad. Therefore, the study concluded that there is need to create awareness about Immunization among mothers