Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Mothers towards Children Immunization during COVID-19 Pandemic

Background: Parental knowledge, practice, and attitudes towards vaccination are important
factors in predicting a child's immunization status especially during COVID quarantine. Aim
of the study: This study was conducted to assess mothers' knowledge, attitude, and practice
regarding children immunization during COVID Pandemic at Hafr- Al-Batin City. Subjects
and method: Descriptive analytical cross-sectional was performed from 30 June 2020 until
25 July 2020. 126 Mothers who had at least one child at the immunization period were
included in the study using convenience and snowball sampling methods. An online
questionnaire was used by the researchers to obtain the necessary data. This questionnaire
consisted of four parts was designed to gather the participants' data. Part 1; Sociodemographic
characteristics, Part 2; Mothers’ knowledge about childhood immunizations
during COVID 19, Part 3; Mothers’ practices about children's immunizations, and Part 4;
Mothers Attitude toward infants’ immunizations during COVID 19 pandemic. Result: slightly
less than half (46%) of the mothers has a good level of knowledge. Also, the majority (84.2%)
of the mothers had a satisfactory level of practice. 41.3% of the mother disagree that
vaccination side effects are dangerous, about two-thirds (65.1%) of them strongly agree that
COVID causes a delay in immunization, and about half of them (50.8) strongly agree on fear
from going to child Vaccination during COVID. Conclusion: about half of the mothers have
a good level of knowledge and the majority of them had a satisfactory level of practice.
Moreover, about two-thirds of them strongly agree that COVID causes a delay in immunization.