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    The Characteristics of Families who rejected Vaccination during the Mop-up Oral Polio Vaccination Campaign and Their Reasons of Rejection: A Family Health Center Experience
    (Düzce Üniversitesi, 2017) Erdem, Özgür; Toktaş, İzzettin; Çelepkolu, Tahsin; Demir, Vasfiye
    Objective:Mop-Up Polio Vaccination Campaign is a movement which aims to reach the targetof eliminating polio. Our aim in this study is to investigate thecharacteristics of the families who have rejected oral polio vaccination (OPV)of their children within the OPV Campaign in a family health center and toexamine the reasons of rejecting the vaccination.Methods:The data was obtained through a survey in face-to-face interviews which wereperformed with the families who have rejected the vaccination of their childrenwithin the Mop-Up Oral polio vaccination campaign. The survey form consisted of14 questions about the socio-demographic features of the families and children,and the reasons of rejecting oral polio. Results:1250 children were included in the vaccination program during the campaign. 38of the children (3.04%) rejected vaccination during the campaign, the averageage of the children was 23.2±17.7 months. The youngest one was three days oldand the eldest one was 59 months old. Looking over the family members who tookthe survey, it is seen that 71 % of those were the mothers (n=27), 8% of thosewere the fathers (n=3) and 21% of those were the relatives (n=8). It wasdiscovered that 94.7 % of the children who rejected OPA vaccination got othervaccinations according to the Ministry of Health National Vaccination Calendar(n=36), whereas 5.3% of those children lacked of other vaccinations (n=2).Though 81.6% of the children were given OPA beforehand (n=31), 18.4% were notgiven at all (n=7).Conclusion: Levels of educational andawareness are important in reaching the targeted vaccination rates in theconduction of vaccination works. We believe that informing the medicalpersonnel, especially those who work at the first step, on the vaccinationcampaigns to be conducted and increasing their awareness will decrease thevaccination rejections.