Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Vaccine preventable disease (VPD) is still a public health issue in Malaysia. Despite high immunisation coverage, children aged less than five years old are still at risk of contracting the disease. In Sarawak, there are pockets of under immunised population marked by immunisation coverage less than 95%. METHODS: The cross-sectional study was conducted on under five children in central zone of Sarawak. Data was collected by face to face interview using interviewer administered questionnaire. Data on anthropometry, medical and immunisation records were obtained through children under seven health books. Univariate and multivariate analyses were done to determine the association between immunisation coverage with independent variables. Analysis was done by IBM SPSS version 22.0. A p<0.05 was considered as statistically significant. RESULTS: Overall complete immunisation coverage in central zone was high at 95.3%. Only 4.5% of the children were incompletely immunised, and 0.2% were unimmunised. Older children (Adj. OR:1.037, 95%CI: 1.011, 1.063, p<0.001), history of hospitalisation [(Adj. OR:2.541, 95%CI: 1.341, 4.815)
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-50,
title = {Factors Associated with Incomplete Immunisation Among Under-5 Children in Central Zone of Sarawak},
author = {Suzalinna Sulaiman and Razitasham Safi},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Vaccine preventable disease (VPD) is still a public health issue in Malaysia. Despite high immunisation coverage, children aged less than five years old are still at risk of contracting the disease. In Sarawak, there are pockets of under immunised population marked by immunisation coverage less than 95%. METHODS: The cross-sectional study was conducted on under five children in central zone of Sarawak. Data was collected by face to face interview using interviewer administered questionnaire. Data on anthropometry, medical and immunisation records were obtained through children under seven health books. Univariate and multivariate analyses were done to determine the association between immunisation coverage with independent variables. Analysis was done by IBM SPSS version 22.0. A p\<0.05 was considered as statistically significant. RESULTS: Overall complete immunisation coverage in central zone was high at 95.3%. Only 4.5% of the children were incompletely immunised, and 0.2% were unimmunised. Older children (Adj. OR:1.037, 95%CI: 1.011, 1.063, p\<0.001), history of hospitalisation [(Adj. OR:2.541, 95%CI: 1.341, 4.815)},
note = {Type: ORAL PRESENTATION; Organisation: Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak},
keywords = {childhood immunisation, coverage, Sarawak},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}