Analysis on the awareness rate of Poliomyelitis vaccine and influential factors among guardians of children in Yinchuan City

Objective To investigate the awareness rate of Poliomyelitis vaccine among children guardians in Yinchuan as well as its influential factors, so as to provide basis for promoting the popularization of vaccine-related knowledge, avoiding VAPP, maintaining children's health and impelling National Expanded Program on Immunization. Methods The questionnaire survey was conducted among 1 164 children's parents who were randomly collected in vaccination clinic of Yinchuan. Results The 598 guardians of children knew well about Poliomyelitis vaccine and the awareness rate was 51.4%. The single factor analysis results showed that relationship with children, age, educational level, occupation, the number of family children, residence time and the monthly income of family were the significant factors. Unconditional Logistic regression analysis showed that the awareness rate was associated with age, relationship with children, educational level and the number of family children. Conclusions More attention to vaccine related knowledge should be paid to enhance public awareness and education in the future. Adjusting education approaches according to the requirements of different people should be performed to improve the motivation of parents and strengthen the popularization of vaccination knowledge.