Parents’ Attitude about Hepatitis B Disease and Practice of Hepatitis B Vaccination among Children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Table 3
Percentages of respondents answering, “strongly agree” or “agree” to Health Behaviour Conceptual Questions and “yes” to prior contact questions, stratified by HepB Vaccination Status of Children (n=768).
Concepts
Full and timely vaccination
p -value
Yes (n=260)
(n=508)
Susceptibility to HepB
My child is at high risk for HepB
156 (60.0)
233 (45.9)
<0.001
I think my child will get HepB in future
218 (83.8)
384 (75.6)
0.009
Severity of HepB
HBV is a serious disease
249 (95.8)
477 (93.9)
0.280
My child could be severity if s/he got HepB
209 (80.4)
429 (84.5)
0.155
I’m afraid to even think about my child getting sick with HBV
227 (87.3)
445 (87.6)
0.908
Benefits and barriers of vaccination
Immunization will prevent HBV
244 (93.9)
484 (95.3)
0.399
By getting HepB vaccine, child will not spread HBV to others
189 (72.7)
379 (74.6)
0.567
Need to be HepB vaccination on schedule
228 (87.7)
463 (91.1)
0.132
The HepB shot can be painful
215 (82.7)
418 (82.3)
0.888
Vaccination can cause AEFIs
315 (62.01)
177 (68.08)
0,097
It is a convenient time to take my child in for vaccines
215 (82.7)
406 (79.9)
0.356
It is a convenient location to take my child in for vaccines
217 (83.5)
420 (82.7)
0.784
Cues to action
Vaccination information from health workers
109 (41.29)
166 (32.68)
0.011
Vaccination information from mass media
117 (45)
200 (39.37)
0.134
Prior Contact (n=667) (yes) missing 101
Observed slightly side effect
89 (34.2)
187 (36.8)
0.481
Observed serious side effect
25 (9.6)
24 (4.7)
0.009
My child had side effect after vaccination
44 (27.3)
151 (29.8)
0.542
Chi-square tests used to the comparison between with and without getting the full and timely hepatitis B vaccine groups, excluding missing data.
