Background: Vaccination is estimated to save 2.5 million lives each year around the world. However, due to a lack of vaccination awareness, vaccination coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa, like Cameroon, remains low.
The aim of this study was to see how health education affected parents' awareness and attitudes about vaccination.The effects of health education on parents' awareness and attitudes about vaccination in the Mouanko Health Area were studied in this cross-sectional interventional analysis. Cluster sampling was used to select participants, who were then randomly assigned to either an experiment or a control group. After performing a pretest, the intervention consisted of health education on vaccination that was only provided to the intervention party. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data on skills and attitudes. A point was awarded for each correct answer to the questionnaire's questions. Parents who scored seven points or more on the information segment were considered intelligent, whereas those who scored less than seven were considered unknowledgeable. Similarly, each correct answer was given a point; parents who scored four points or more on a scale of seven were said to have positive attitudes, while those who scored less than four were said to have negative attitudes. vaccination viewpoints Data was obtained from May 13 to June 15, 2019, and SPSS version 25.0 was used to analyse it.
Results: After the intervention, the proportion of participants with vaccine awareness increased from 35.0 percent to 57.6 percent, and the proportion of participants with positive attitudes increased from 31.0 percent to 41.9 percent. For information and attitudes, the p-values were 0.001 and 0.012, respectively (CI = 95 percent).
Conclusion: The cost-effectiveness of health education was shown by the positive improvement in the intervention community after the intervention.
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