Open AccessFREQUENCY OF VACCINATION IN MEASLES
Author(s) -
Faisal Basheer,
Mohammad Aatif,
Shakeel Ahmed,
Salman Ali
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2006.13.04.4926
Subject(s) - medicine , measles , vaccination , immunization , confidence interval , pediatrics , statistical significance , measles vaccine , age groups , chi square test , demography , immunology , statistics , antigen , sociology , mathematics
Objective: To calculate the frequency of vaccinated children in measles casesand to determine association of age and sex with vaccination status of measles. Design: Descriptive Study. Place andduration of study: Department Of Paediatric Medicine, Military Hospital (MH), Rawalpindi from October 2001 toSeptember 2002. Patients and Methods: 250 cases of clinical measles, selected by convenient sampling, reportingin out patient department or admitted were registered. Age, sex and vaccination status were noted. Statistical analyseswere carried out employing “t Test” and “Chi-Square test”, utilizing SPSS version 10.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc.,Chicago). Test of significance was applied at a confidence limit of 95%. Results: 71.6% were vaccinated and 28.4%were unvaccinated. Ages ranged from 1 to 12 years with a mean age of 5.4±2.4 years. Vaccinated cases had asignificantly (p 90%) in the first dose is still crucial for eradication there is need to revise the in-vogue vaccination schedule to reducethe incidence and so is the measles related morbidity and mortality.