Abstract
Vaccination is important to stimulate the bodys immune system to protect the person against subsequence infection or disease. Recently, there are reported cases where parents refuse to complete their childrens vaccination. Seeing that the childhood vaccination is not made compulsory in Malaysia, it leaves the options open for parents to reject vaccination for their children. Thus, in 2016, Ministry of Health of Malaysia identified almost 1600 unvaccinated children, an increase from about 1500 in 2015. Due to that, this study was conducted to determine the level of knowledge and attitude regarding infant-vaccination among staff in science-based and non-science based faculties in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Science-based faculty consist of Faculty of Biotechnology and Science Biomolecule and Faculty of Science, while for non-science based were Faculty of Economics and Management and Faculty of Language and Communication. A cross-sectional study was use in this study. Total of 97 respondents were involved. The level of knowledge was high which is 80.4% (74) while the level of attitude was moderate which was 50.5% (49). There were significant association between educational level and the knowledge (p<0.05
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-201,
title = {Knowledge and Attitude On Infant-Vaccination Among Staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor},
author = {Nurulain Atikah Shaipulzaman and Haliza Abdul Rahman and},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {Vaccination is important to stimulate the bodys immune system to protect the person against subsequence infection or disease. Recently, there are reported cases where parents refuse to complete their childrens vaccination. Seeing that the childhood vaccination is not made compulsory in Malaysia, it leaves the options open for parents to reject vaccination for their children. Thus, in 2016, Ministry of Health of Malaysia identified almost 1600 unvaccinated children, an increase from about 1500 in 2015. Due to that, this study was conducted to determine the level of knowledge and attitude regarding infant-vaccination among staff in science-based and non-science based faculties in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Science-based faculty consist of Faculty of Biotechnology and Science Biomolecule and Faculty of Science, while for non-science based were Faculty of Economics and Management and Faculty of Language and Communication. A cross-sectional study was use in this study. Total of 97 respondents were involved. The level of knowledge was high which is 80.4% (74) while the level of attitude was moderate which was 50.5% (49). There were significant association between educational level and the knowledge (p\<0.05},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: 1Department of Environmental andOccupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, 2Institute for Social Sciences Studies (IPSAS), Putra Infoport, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia},
keywords = {Attitude, Infant-vaccination, Knowledge, UPM staff},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}