Parent vaccine hesitancy on their children measles rubella (MR) vaccination of urban area in Indonesia

Abstract

introduction: Although vaccine has been one of the biggest achievements in public health, number of people who still question the benefit of vaccine gets bigger each year. It happens all over the globe, including Indonesia. The reason of this hesitancy toward vaccination is different from each region and as the result, it makes people either completely accepted it, accept but not sure to completely refuse the vaccine. This research is held to see the vaccination status toward MR vaccine. Methodology: A cross-sectional study carried out in Makassar city, Indonesia from March-May 2019 using online self-administered questionnaire. Snowball sampling technique was used. There were 283 respondents who eligible for this study, which are parents/caregiver who lived in Makassar for the last 10 years and has child age 1-9 years old. There are three variable that we want to see association with the MR Vaccination status. From contextual influences variable, there are six parts. On Individual or group influences variable, it has five parts. On vaccine/vaccination variable there are five parts. From each of these parts, it has some questions and all of those questions were analyzed to see the association with MR vaccine status with the p-value <0.2 Result: Most of the respondents are the mother of the child 221 (78.1%). Parent who get support from the leader on MR Vaccination are 3.993 times higher to give their children MR Vaccination compare to the ones that not get support. From the multivariate analysis, we found out that parents who do not believe that there are other (better) ways to prevent diseases by vaccine are 0.392 times lower to give their children vaccination compare to parents who believe so. Parents who fear their child will get hurt during MR vaccination are 0.124 times lower to give their children MR vaccine compare to parents who have no fear that their children might get hurt. Parents who have difficulties to get their children to MR vaccination due to the schedule are 0.473 times lower compare to those parents who easily follow the MR vaccination schedule.