The Educational Level And Vaccination Knowledge Among Parents In Dawadmi-Saudi Arabia, 2014

Background: vaccinations are important to our children and their health. Parents' knowledge about the importance of vaccination is affected by many factors, one of them is the level of education. There are some parents does not know about the benefit of vaccination and they vaccinate their children because it's mandatory.Objectives: The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge of parents about vaccination in 2014 in Dawadmi city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its relationship to the educational level.Methodology: Across-sectional study to assess the relation between parents' educational level and their knowledge about vaccination using a questionnaire in Arabic and English forms.Results: A total of 343 parents were included in the final analysis. The study shows an increasing in parents' knowledge with increasing their education level. 91.9% of university educated parents, 72.6% of primary or secondary educated parents and 45.5% of parents who read and write are known that the vaccination prevents disease.Conclusion and Recommondation: Although the vaccination knowledge considered higher in this study group, but there should bean increase in doctor recommendation and advices especially for low educated parents.