Assessment of knowledge and attitude among postnatal mothers towards childhood vaccination in Malaysia

Helvinder Kaur Balbir Singh, Vishal Bhagwan Badgujar, Rose Suzila Yahaya, Santibuana Abd Rahman, Farheen Sami, Sangeeta Badgujar, Subhashini Nair Govindan, Mohammed Tahir Ansari

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics · 2019 · 50 citations · 36 references

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: More than half of the studied mothers had good knowledge scores on vaccination, more than two-thirds of the studied mothers had good attitude scores on vaccination. However, the religious misconception and fear of autism was the main cause of vaccine resistance in Malaysia.

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