Journal of AdvancedMedical and Dental Sciences Research

Aim: To determine the coverage of MR vaccination programme in urban area. Methods: After taking the ethical permission this study was done in the department of community medicine. 100 Children aged between 8 months and 14 years were included in this study. Children below 8 months and above 14years and those parents not willing to participate in the study were excluded. Pre tested, semi structured questionnaire by interview technique was used in this study. Results: out of 100 children’s, 40% were in the age group of 4 to 9 years followed by 36% in the age group of below 4 years and 24% in the age group of 9 to 14 years. 87% of the children have been immunized with the MR vaccine and 13% of the children have not been vaccinated by MR vaccine. out of 54 male 50 male (57.47%) were immunized and 4 male (30.76%) were not immunized. Among females, 37 (42.53%) children were immunized and 9 (69.24%) were not immunized. on the basis of sex we found that the 57.47% boys and 42.53% girls were vaccinated. On the basis of MR vaccinations card 64% children’s vaccinated while 36% did not have MR vaccinated card. 68% children’s were vaccinated in school campus, 24% in anganwadi and rest of the children’s in the government hospitals.50% parents get the MR vaccination informations from the school, 24% from anganwadi teachers , 10% from the social media and remaining parents get the information from various sources. due to illness 40% children’s, 26% not aware by the immunization process, 15% due to travel or out of station during vaccination campaign,10% forget about the session and remaining due to fear factors were not vaccinated. Conclusion: We concluded that the immunization process is very important for the children’s. we suggested that the all the people and government worker should be aware for the MR vaccination programmed, it should be compulsory for all the children’s.