Risk factors associated with non-vaccination in Gambian children: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We determined the risk factors associated with unvaccinated children in rural Gambia.

Methods

We conducted prospective demographic surveillance and recorded immunisations in real time in the Upper River Region, The Gambia. Analysis included residents born from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2016. Data included age, sex, household members and relationships, migrations, births, deaths, ethnicity, residential location and birth type. Children were defined as unvaccinated at 10, 15 and 24 mo of age if they missed all primary series doses (pentavalent, oral polio and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines), secondary series (first dose measles and yellow fever vaccines) or both vaccination series, respectively. Logistic regressions measured the association between risk factors

SUBMITTER: Young B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9623738 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature