Child vaccine communication practice in promoting child immunization in the Amhara region of Ethiopia

Table 1 The frequency distribution of the respondents’ sociodemographic characteristics

Variables		n = 123	%
Sex	Male	2	1.6
	Female	121	98.4
Age	18-25	15	12.2
	26-35	76	61.8
	36-45	28	22.8
	46-55	4	3.2
Education level	Level 3	8	6.5
	Below bachelor’s degree	96	78.0
	Degree and above	19	15.5
Working experience	1-5 years	16	13.0
	6-10 years	63	51.2
	11-15 years	38	30.9
	16 and above	6	4.9
Vaccine communication training	No training taken	25	20.3
	Took once	75	61.0
	Took twice	21	17.1
	Took three or more times	2	1.6
Relevance of vaccine communication training	Low	2	1.6
	Unknown	23	18.7
	High	53	43.1
	Very high	45	36.6

Table 2 Mean comparison between the calculated and the expected

	T	Df	Sample mean	Test value	P value	Mean difference	95%CI of the difference
							Lower	Upper
Health education and communication total	17.232	122	24.10	18.00	0.000	6.098	5.40	6.80
Registering information	26.680	122	8.86	6.00	0.000	2.862	2.65	3.07
Exchange information	20.139	122	8.30	6.00	0.000	2.301	2.07	2.53

CI: Confidence interval.

Table 3 Mean comparison (observed and expected)

	T	Df	Sample mean	Test value	P value	Mean difference	95%CI of the difference
							Lower	Upper
The implementation of interpersonal health communication principles	8.729	122	22.9	18	0.000	4.902	3.79	6.01

CI: Confidence interval.

Table 4 Analysis of variance between the sociodemographic variables and the vaccine communication activities

Dependent variables	Independent variables	n	Mean square	F	P value
Education communication activity	Between age groups	123	35.982	2.418	0.700
	Between educational levels	123	18.003	1.172	0.313
	Between years of work experience	123	22.712	1.493	0.220
Register child vaccine and vaccination data	Between age groups	123	1.728	1.228	0.303
	Between educational levels	123	2.557	1.831	0.165
	Between years of work experience	123	2.321	1.667	0.178
Exchange vaccine and vaccination information	Between age groups	123	3.067	1.955	0.124
	Between educational levels	123	4.080	2.609	0.078
	Between years of work experience	123	1.006	0.621	0.603

Table 5 One-way analysis of variance

	Variables	n	Mean square	F	P value
The implementation of interpersonal health communication principles	Between age groups	123	0.358	0.009	0.999
	Between groups in terms of education level	123	52.115	52.115	0.263
	Between groups in terms of work experience	123	27.474	0.703	0.552
	Between groups based on immunization communication training	123	1413.544	341.756	0.000
	Between groups in terms of the perceived relevance of immunization communication training	123	649.931	27.790	0.000

Table 6 Correlation analysis

Variables	Pearson correlation	P value	n
Immunization communication training	1.000	N/A	123
The implementation of interpersonal health communication principles	0.7341	0.000	123
The relevance of immunization communication training	1.000	N/A	123
The implementation of interpersonal health communication principles	0.4431	0.000	123

¹Correlation was significant at the 0.001 level. N/A: Not available.

Table 7 Frequency of modes of communication

Item	n	Mean
Providing health education by using audio-visual aids and brainstorming modes	123	1.98
Providing health education by using oral/word of mouth/paper-based modes	123	4.11

Table 8 Frequency of communication strategies

Items	n	Mean
One-to-one communication strategy	123	3.50
One-to-group communication strategy	123	3.32
Door-to-door communication strategy	123	3.17
Peer-to-peer communication strategy	123	2.25
Educate and communicate with the community at community meetings	123	2.39
Educate and discuss with mothers/caregivers through using community radio	123	1.56
Use mobile phone to communicate with mothers/caregivers about child vaccine and vaccination	123	2.59