Parental perceptions surrounding polio and self-reported non-participation in polio supplementary immunization activities in Karachi, Pakistan: a mixed methods study
Asif Raza Khowaja, Sher Ali Khan, Naveeda Nizam, Saad Bin Omer & Anita Zaidi
Volume 90, Number 11, November 2012, 822-830
Table 3. Reasons reported by parents for their children not having participated in the two most recent polio supplementary immunization activities, by ethnicity and income group, Karachi, Pakistan, 2011
| Reason | No. (%) of parents |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low-income Pashtuns (n = 59) | Low-income non-Pashtuns (n = 9) | Middle- or high-incomea (n = 89) | Total (n = 157) | |
| No vaccinator came to the house | 14 (23.7) | 6 (66.7) | 14 (15.7) | 34 (21.6) |
| Family elder or husband refused | 43 (72.9) | 2 (22.2) | 71 (79.8) | 116 (73.9) |
| Child not at home when vaccinator visited | 2 (3.4) | 1 (11.1) | 4 (4.5) | 7 (4.5) |
a All ethnicities.