Design and Development of a Science Literacy Material on Vaccination as an Intervention Campaign for Parents of High School Students in the Philippines

Jenny J. Casiṅo^1, and Angelo Mark P. Walag^{1, 2}

¹Department of Science Education, University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines

²Center for Human Development Studies, University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines

Cite this paper:
Jenny J. Casiṅo and Angelo Mark P. Walag. Design and Development of a Science Literacy Material on Vaccination as an Intervention Campaign for Parents of High School Students in the Philippines. American Journal of Educational Research. 2020; 8(10):762-766. doi: 10.12691/education-8-10-4

Abstract

The Philippines had an alarming rise in measles cases for the past few years, and one of the reasons for this is the parents’ hesitation in having their kids vaccinated. For this reason, this study aims to formulate and design a science literacy material on vaccination as an intervention campaign for parents of one high school in the Philippines. The study utilized a pre-experimental pre-test-posttest research design with 100 randomly selected parents of the Grade 7 students enrolled for the academic year 2018-2019. A standardized test on parents' knowledge and perception of vaccines with internal consistency value of 0.7185 was used. In the pretest, respondents scored low on vaccine knowledge. However, a significant improvement was shown in the levels of knowledge on vaccines before and after the conduct of the symposium and the distribution of the brochures. There was also a significant difference between the parents’ perception on vaccination before and after the vaccination intervention campaign. Based on the study's findings, it is recommended that the school, in cooperation with the DOH and the local government unit, must conduct a massive educational or information drive to the parents to reduce the number of hesitant parents.

Keywords:
education awareness measles vaccination parents’ attitude on vaccines parents’ vaccine knowledge vaccine education

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