Factores asociados al cumplimiento del esquema nacional de vacunación en niños y niñas de 0 a 2 años de edad que acuden al Centro de Salud Uncovía, Cuenca 2021

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Vaccination is an important advance in public health worldwide, Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur were the ones who initiated the great contributions to the progress of vaccination along with Salk and Sabin, currently this is one of the greatest successes in medicine. (1) Vaccination is one of the safest forms of protection, especially in children. Every year, it saves between 2 and 3 million lives, playing an essential role that seeks to put an end to preventable child deaths. (2) GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To identify the factors associated with compliance with the national vaccination schedule in children from 0 to 2 years of age attending the Uncovía health center, Cuenca 2021. METHODOLOGY: The study has a quantitative approach, using a cross-sectional analytical design, the sample was 246 caregivers, a survey was applied, then the SPSS program was used for data processing presenting the results through frequency tables and percentages. RESULTS: 75.6% of the caregivers were mothers, the ages of the children were mostly between 1 and 2 years (34.6%), 55.3% had an incomplete vaccination schedule, the ages of the caregivers were between 26-35 years (44.7%), 86.2% were from urban areas, 55.3% had high school education, the income of 47.6% was less than $400 and one of the difficulties encountered when vaccinating the children was the lack of the biologic in 68.3% of the cases.