Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on vaccination attitudes of parents admi̇tted to children's emergency deparment and routi̇ne immunication between 0-48 months

Research data; were collected descriptively and retrospectively between August 15 2021 and November 1 2021 to determine the impact of COVID-19 outbreak on vaccination attitudes and routine immunization status of mothers who applied to the children's emergency unit between March 11 2020 and August 1 2021. In the collection of data; The Google questionnaire form and the Parent Attitudes About Childhood Vaccines were used. The licensed SPSS 22.0 program was used to analyze the data. In comparing sociodemographic characteristics with scale and subsizes; Mann-Whitney U for binary groups and Kruskall-Wallis tests were used for more than two groups. 38,1% of the mothers in the study do not know about childhood vaccinations, 10.6% did not have their children vaccinated routinely in the vaccination calendar, 18.8% received non-essential (paid) vaccinations, 16% of mothers will not go to the health institution for the next vaccination and It was determined that most mothers (73%) who will not go to the health institution for routine vaccination in childhood would not go due to covid-19 pandemic. Mothers who are hesitant to vaccinate; it was determined that there were mothers between the ages of 18 and 23 who graduated from primary school, had low socioeconomic levels, had no social security and large family, do not know about childhood vaccinations and dont current vaccination schedule, do not think vaccinations were necessary, did not have childhood routine/non-routine vaccinations to their child, did not regularly go to checkups and did not have children with chronic diseases.