Nationwide Routine Childhood Vaccination Coverage During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Jordan: Current Situation, Reasons, and Predictors of Vaccination

Table 5

Practices of the caregivers who delayed child vaccination during COVID-19 pandemic (n = 142).

%^†(n)
Duration of the delay
1 month	40.8% (58)
2 months	26.8% (38)
3 months	9.2% (13)
4 months or more	23.2% (33)
Frequency of vaccination delay by age category
First-month vaccine (BCG)	18.3% (26)
Second-month vaccine (hexavalent-1^‡; rotavirus-1)	13.4% (19)
Third-month vaccine (hexavalent-2^‡; OPV-1; rotavirus-2)	19.7% (28)
Fourth-month vaccine (hexavalent-3^‡; OPV-2; rotavirus-3)	20.4% (29)
Ninth-month vaccine (measles vaccine; OPV-3)	19.0% (27)
Twelfth-month vaccine (MMR-1)	19.0% (27)
Eighteenth-month vaccine (OPV-booster; DPT-booster; MMR-2)	33.1% (47)
Time interval during which the vaccine was delayed
1 January 2020 (corona virus outbreak) to 29 January 2020	2.1% (3)
30 January 2020 (public health emergency of international concern) to 1 March 2020	0.7% (1)
2 March 2020 (first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Jordan) to 20 March 2020	0.7% (1)
21 March 2020 to 21 April 2020 (lockdown)	42.3% (60)
22 April 2020 to 30 May 2020 (lockdown, partially relaxed)	6.3% (9)
After 30 May 2020 (smart lockdown, first and second waves)	52.5% (74)
Reasons for the delay
Lockdown	42.3% (60)
Sick child at the vaccine due date	31.7% (45)
Regional lockdown/health center closure due to COVID-19	7.7% (11)
Lack of time	4.9% (7)
Traveling	2.1% (3)
Forgetting	2.1% (3)
Physician advice to postpone	0.7% (1)

BCG: Bacillus Calmette–Guérin; DPT: diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus; MMR: measles, mumps, and rubella; OPV: oral polio vaccine. ^†Valid percent of those who delayed a child vaccine (n = 142). ^‡Hexavalent vaccine: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT); Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib); hepatitis B vaccine (HBV); and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV).