KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES OF RIVERINE MOTHERS ABOUT VACCINATION

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Ricardo Luiz Saldanha da
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Santos, Evelyn Rafaela de Almeida dos, Silva, Elis Maria Rodrigues da, Rodrigues, Ivaneide Leal Ataíde, Andrade, Erlon Gabriel Rego de, Nogueira, Laura Maria Vidal
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Cogitare Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/cogitare/article/view/92109
• topic: Vaccination; Rural Population; Public Health; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Nursing.

Objective: to analyze the knowledge of riverine mothers about vaccination and its influence on the practice of taking their children for vaccination.Method: qualitative/descriptive study, conducted at the Combú Family Health Unit, Belém-Pará, Brazil, with 30 riverine mothers who had children of vaccination age. Data were produced by individual interviews, whose corpus was analyzed with the software Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires 0.7, alpha 2, using Descending Hierarchical Classification.Results: the software generated six classes, composing two categories: “Knowledge and practices of riverine mothers about vaccination” and “Importance of health education and the role of health professionals in sharing information about vaccination”.Conclusion: discussing the knowledge of riverside mothers about vaccination and its influence on decision-making allowed a critical reflection on the practices in the daily life of this population, providing health professionals with the opportunity to rethink strategies, especially in educational actions.