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Knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among university staff in Malaysian public university

Objective: To determine the knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among a couple of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) staffs in Serdang, Selangor. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out involving 97 respondents. A cluster sampling technique for the categorization of the faculty in UPM...

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Main Authors: Shaipuzaman, Nurulain Atikah, Abdul Rahman, Haliza
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Published: Taylor Francis 2022
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102053/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21645515.2022.2029258
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spelling my.upm.eprints.1020532023-09-22T23:56:12Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102053/ Knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among university staff in Malaysian public university Shaipuzaman, Nurulain Atikah Abdul Rahman, Haliza Objective: To determine the knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among a couple of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) staffs in Serdang, Selangor. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out involving 97 respondents. A cluster sampling technique for the categorization of the faculty in UPM to science-based and non-science-based is used. Then, fishbowl technique was adopted in selecting the faculty from the two categorizations, which consists of 1) science-based: Faculty Biotechnology and Science Biomolecule and Faculty of Science; 2) non-science-based: Faculty of Economics and Management and Faculty of Language and Communication. Consequently, a simple random method was used to choose the respondent based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data on socio-demographic characteristic, knowledge and attitude regarding infant vaccination were collected using a modified and pretested questionnaire. The data then were analyzed using SPSS version 22. Results: Of 97 respondents, 78 (80.4%) had high knowledge, and 49 (50.5%) have moderate attitude regarding infant vaccination. Overall, science-based faculty and non-science-based faculty prevalence of refuse infant vaccination was 2.1%, 6.5%, respectively. There was a significant association between educational level and the knowledge (p < .05, p = .019). However, there was no significant association between socio-demographic and attitude. Other than that,, there was no association between knowledge and attitude among these two different types of faculty (P > .05, p = .256, p = .597). Conclusion: Effort are needed for focusing on health education campaign with collaboration between health-care professionals, social media and community to improve their awareness for immunization. Taylor Francis 2022-03-03 Article PeerReviewed Shaipuzaman, Nurulain Atikah and Abdul Rahman, Haliza (2022) Knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among university staff in Malaysian public university. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 18 (1). art. no. 2029258. pp. 1-7. ISSN 2164-5515; ESSN: 2164-554X https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21645515.2022.2029258 10.1080/21645515.2022.2029258
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description Objective: To determine the knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among a couple of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) staffs in Serdang, Selangor. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out involving 97 respondents. A cluster sampling technique for the categorization of the faculty in UPM to science-based and non-science-based is used. Then, fishbowl technique was adopted in selecting the faculty from the two categorizations, which consists of 1) science-based: Faculty Biotechnology and Science Biomolecule and Faculty of Science; 2) non-science-based: Faculty of Economics and Management and Faculty of Language and Communication. Consequently, a simple random method was used to choose the respondent based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data on socio-demographic characteristic, knowledge and attitude regarding infant vaccination were collected using a modified and pretested questionnaire. The data then were analyzed using SPSS version 22. Results: Of 97 respondents, 78 (80.4%) had high knowledge, and 49 (50.5%) have moderate attitude regarding infant vaccination. Overall, science-based faculty and non-science-based faculty prevalence of refuse infant vaccination was 2.1%, 6.5%, respectively. There was a significant association between educational level and the knowledge (p < .05, p = .019). However, there was no significant association between socio-demographic and attitude. Other than that,, there was no association between knowledge and attitude among these two different types of faculty (P > .05, p = .256, p = .597). Conclusion: Effort are needed for focusing on health education campaign with collaboration between health-care professionals, social media and community to improve their awareness for immunization.
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Abdul Rahman, Haliza
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Knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among university staff in Malaysian public university
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title Knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among university staff in Malaysian public university
title_short Knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among university staff in Malaysian public university
title_full Knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among university staff in Malaysian public university
title_fullStr Knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among university staff in Malaysian public university
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge and attitude on infant vaccination among university staff in Malaysian public university
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