@article{ajnr20186637,
author={{Awady, Sahar Mahmoud S. El and Hegazy, Azza El-Sayed Ali and Talaat, Taghreed},
title={Effect of Health Instructional Guidelines for Mothers about Their Children Vaccination},
journal={American Journal of Nursing Research},
volume={6},
number={6},
pages={658--667},
year={2018},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajnr/6/6/37},
issn={2378-5586},
abstract={<b>Background</b><b>:</b><b> </b>Vaccination means giving a vaccine to a child for activating immune system to resistant an infectious disease, by administration of a vaccine. These vaccines help to stimulate the body's own immune system to protect the children against subsequent diseases. <b>Aim</b> of this study is to evaluate the effect of instructional guidelines for mothers about children vaccination. <b>Design:</b> Quasi-experimental research design was used. <b>Sample: </b>purposive sample equal 375 mothers who having children and attending the routine immunization in  centers. <b>Settings:</b> study was conducted at two Maternal-Child Health Centers (in-Helwan and Ezbat Elwalda) at, Ain-Helwan District and Helwan City, Cairo, Egypt. <b>Tool:</b><b> </b>one tool used; Interview questionnaire sheet composed of 3 parts (Socio-demographiccharacteristics, mothers' knowledge &amp; mothers' reported practice regarding children vaccination). <b>Results:</b><b> </b>the mean age of mothers was 29.5¡À7.1 years. Mothers' total knowledge was improved post instructional guidelines than pre. Also, satisfactory reported practices of mothers regarding vaccination was 75% at the post than pre the instructional guidelines. <b>Conclusion:</b> the study denoted that there was an improvement of mothers' knowledge and reported practice after applying the instructional guidelinesthan before with statistically significant differences. <b>Recommendations:</b> provide mothers by health instructional guideline and vaccination booklets which include the importance of vaccination, side effects and how to manage its complications, obligatory vaccine schedule and non-obligatory vaccine schedule in  centers.},
doi={10.12691/ajnr-6-6-37}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}