AWARENESS AND TRUST ON VACCINATIONOF THE WOMEN LIVING IN EAST KAZAKHSTANREGION ON THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY

Abstract

Background: Questions of trust in vaccination becomes a relevant view of the increase cases of
refusal of vaccination in the last time, and the knowledge about the sources of information on
vaccination definitely can impact further to health education work in this direction.
Objectives: To study the sources of information about vaccination and the credibility of these
sources among the population of East Kazakhstan Regon.
Methods: Questionnaire is designed for parents with children under 3 years living in Semey and
EKR. The questionnaire included 36 blocks of questions and was composed of three parts: a general
part - the passport, the age of the parent, nationality, profession, age of the child, the majority - the
attitude of parents to vaccination, consent to the vaccination, the reasons for acceptance or rejection of
vaccination, the final part - questions for the study of satisfaction and quality of the organization of
vaccination. The frequency and percentages are used to for description of parameters. Chi-square tests
used for between-group comparisons.
Results. This study showed that basic information about vaccination, parents receive medical
organizations of doctors 38,2%, in second place is worth getting information from the Internet 18.6%. In
the study of trust in sources of information, depending on vaccination status is established that a doctor
clinic is greater confidence in the vaccinated group of respondents, 68.1%, p = 0.037, and the
respondents refused vaccination tend to trust the sources of information from the internet 12%.
Conclusions. Our study showed that the main source of information on the vaccination receives
from physician of medical organization, the Internet and the media. At the same time confidence in the
information sources of vaccinated respondents is to a doctor and of unvaccinated respondents to
Internet and other information sources.