Improving timeliness and completion of infant vaccination among infants in Nigerian urban slums through older women's participation.

ABSTRACT: Nigerian urban slums have a high population of infants with suboptimal vaccination despite previous interventions. Older women traditionally play supervisory roles in infant care in Nigeria but their influence is untapped in infant vaccination. This study sought to determine if training of older women (≥35 years) in urban slum communities in Ibadan, South west Nigeria, and involving them in infant vaccination will improve infant vaccination timeliness and completion. This was a randomized experimental community study and pregnant women in their third trimester, residing in seven urban slum communities were randomized using their antenatal clinics (ANCs) into intervention (six ANCs) and control groups (six ANCs). The older women who will supervise the care of the infants of pregnant women i

SUBMITTER: Balogun FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494024 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature