ABSTRACT

Background: During the ongoing covid 19 pandemic trust within the community in the projected schemes to fight against the covid 19 depends on the confidence generated and launched by the government and medical employees towards the public, the intensions regarding the vaccination within the community is determine by the various factors which include personal beliefs, morals, sociodemographic features and perception toward vaccination. The covid 19 pandemic has claimed millions of lives world-wide in India also launched the covid 19 vaccination drive and various clinical trials. Despite the success of adult vaccination against covid 19 providing various vaccines to children remains challenge forms polices makes globally. As the parents are the primary decision makers for their children, the main aim is to assess the intentions and perception regarding covid-19 vaccination in India. Aims: To assess the perception of parents related to covid 19 vaccine in the children. To find out the association between perception of parents with the demographic variable. Material and Method: A cross sectional study was carried out on 255 children to assess the perception of parents related to covid 19 vaccine in children in selected rural area at Vadodara. The research approach adopted for present study is quantitative research approach. The samples in this study was selected by non-randomised purposive sampling techniques. Data in this study was collected by the structuredquestions and check perception of parents related to covid 19 vaccine in the children. The tool used for the present study was Likert scale. The data will be analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyse the data. Result: The overall negative score of perception of parents was 45.5 and positive score was 54.4 mean positive score was greater than Negative score. Majority of parents showed positive perception regarding covid 19 vaccine in their children. the association between perception of parents related to covid 19 vaccine in the children and selected demographic variables which was tested by using chi-square test. Result showed that education of father and mother were found significant with perception of parents related to covid 19 vaccine in the children but age, gender, number of children and family history of covid 19 vaccine were non-significant at p<0.005. Conclusion: The present study concluded that there was more positive perception among parents. Keywords: Assess, Perception, Covid 19 vaccine, Children
Publication date: 15/12/2023

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2023/12.12.1020