Kronik Böbrek Yetmezlikli Çocuk Sahibi Olan Ebeveynlerin Aşılar Hakkındaki Bilgi Düzeyi

Objective: Vaccines are an important preventive health service due to the high risk of infection in children with chronic kidney failure (CKF). This study aimed to examine the vaccination rate in children with CKF and affecting factors. Methods: Parents of 81 patients who were followed up with a diagnosis of CKF between the ages of 0-18 were included. The questionnaire form, consisting of 29 questions was applied to the parents using a face-to-face interview technique. The parents’ demographic characteristics, the vaccination status of the patients with the vaccines in the national vaccination schedule, and vaccination status with meningococcal, influenza, and human papilloma virus that are not in the national vaccination schedule were recorded. Results: It was observed that 85.2% of the patients (n=69) had complete vaccinations in the national vaccination schedule, and 75.3% (n=61) of the parents received vaccination training. The immunization rate with vaccines in the national vaccination schedule of the children of parents who received vaccination training was statistically significantly higher than the children of parents who did not receive training (p