JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v3i1.2210 jpsim.v3i1.2210 Original Research Factors Affecting Children Immunization in Lahore Fatima Tahseen syeda.tahseen.fatima@gmail.com * Waheed Iqra Siddiqui Ahmed Faisal Komal Tayyeba Akhtar Muhammad Kalim Mumtaz Sami Ullah University of Lahore, Lahore University of central Punjab, Lahore King Edward Medical University, Lahore *Correspondence: Tahseen Fatima (syeda.tahseen.fatima@gmail.com) 15 03 2022 2022 3 1 49 52 01 12 2021 30 12 2021 Copyright © 2022 The Author(s) 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

To assess the association of immunization coverage with age of children

 Methodology

This Cross sectional study was used to collect information from candidates (parents). Parents interviewed

regarding immunization status of their children of

 Results

207 (51.8%) children lie under 6 months, 81 (20.3% children lie between 7-12 months and 112 (28%) children

fall greater than 12 months of age. 219 (54.8%) are male and 181 (45.3%) are female. About 288 (72%) children have

fully immunized, 90 (22.5%) have partially complete and 22 (5.5%) have not vaccinated children.360 (90%) parents have

availability of EPI card and 40 (10%) does not have EPI card, 310 (77.5%) parents have knowledge about vaccination and

90 (22.5%) parents does not have knowledge about vaccination. Two clusters were formed firstly including zones areas.

 Conclusion

Data was fall in Fair zone. Therefore, we could say that data is good and all the values tell us so much detail

about vaccination process.

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