%0 Journal Article
%T Factors Influencing Routine Vaccination of Children of Mothers Live-Stock Retailers in the Markets of Yaoundé
%A Nguefack Dongmo F¨¦licit¨¦e
%A Tassadong Christiane
%A Dongmo Roger
%A Tatah Sandra
%A Fodoung Wamba Danny St¨¨ve
%A Chiabi Andreas
%A Kago Innocent
%A Kobela Marie
%J World Journal of Vaccines
%P 23-33
%@ 2160-5823
%D 2016
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/wjv.2016.62004
%X Background: The job of mothers though having a positive impact on the family could be detrimental to children¡¯s health due to her unavailability. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was carried out from March to August 2014. Mothers of children aged 11 - 48 months were interviewed to determine factors which could influence the vaccination of their children. Results: A total of 265 mothers were interviewed. Despite their occupations, they completely vaccinated all of their children. The vaccination coverage of tracer antigens (third dose of DPT/HiB/HepB) was high 97.7% as well as the proportion of children completely vaccinated (91.7%). A mastery of the vaccination calendar of the site, and resumption of activities when the children were more than 4 months old, significantly influenced the completion of vaccination. Only 6 children (2.3%) were not correctly or incompletely vaccinated. The reason given by their mothers were: the lack of time (45.0%), the adverse effects of vaccines (27.0%), forgetfulness (18%), and shortage of vaccines supplies (5.0%). Conclusions: Occupation was not a hindrance to the vaccination of children of live-stock retailers. The problem of absent or incomplete vaccination could be overcome by improving the strategies of social mobilisation, permitting the sensitisation of mothers hesitant to vaccinate their children. A regular supply of vaccines will reduce the missed opportunities, thus maintaining high vaccination coverage in this social group.
%K Vaccination Coverage
%K Factors
%K Complete
%K Occupation
%K Mothers
%K Children
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=66386