Relation between mother's vaccine hesitancy and the vaccination scheme of the child under 5 years

Vaccine hesitancy is "the delay in accepting or refusing vaccination despite the availability of services". This report relates the hesitancy to vaccines in the mother and the vaccination schedule for children under 5 years of age using a cross-sectional, correlational, non-experimental study. The Parents' Attitudes Questionnaire towards Children's Vaccines was applied to measure indecision towards vVaccines in mothers of children under five years of age, the vaccination schedule was increased. Descriptive and inferential analysis was performed to compare, associate and relate variables. In mothers of children with a complete vaccination schedule, 21% have an intermediate level and 1.75% have a high level of indecision about vaccines, mothers of children with an incomplete schedule, 26% have an intermediate level and 5% have a high level. No relationship was found between vaccine hesitancy and vaccination schedule (p=0.265). Associations were found between occupation and hesitancy about vaccinations (p=0.034); between vaccination schedule with schooling (p=0.013), occupation (p=0.034) and reasons for non-vaccination (p=0.000), negative correlations between vaccination schedule, schooling (p=0.003) and age of the child (p=0.037) . No consequences were found between vaccine hesitancy and vaccination schedule.