Parents’ knowledge about immunization with pentavalent vaccine who attended primary health care centers in Al-Diwaniyah City, Iraq
Zainalabideen Y. Jumaa, Nasir M. Younis · 2025
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Description
Zainalabideen Jumaa and Nasir Younis survey what Iraqi parents know about the pentavalent vaccine, the five-in-one shot that anchors infant immunization, in this study from twenty twenty-five. One hundred forty parents attending primary health centers in Al-Diwaniyah City answered fifteen knowledge questions.
The results troubled the authors. Fifty-nine percent scored poor, thirty-four percent fair, and only seven percent good. Knowledge tracked with parents' education level and with who actually cares for the child day to day. Behind the gaps sit false beliefs of social, cultural, and religious kinds, the authors report. Their verdict is blunt: parental knowledge of a vaccine guarding against five deadly diseases is unacceptable and below the required level, and health centers should teach as deliberately as they inject.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zainalabideen Y. Jumaa, Nasir M. Younis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |