FACTORS RELATED TO PREVALENCE OF POLIO IN VARIOUS LOCALITY OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA

Abstract

To investigate the factors related to prevalence of Polio along with association among factors in various locality of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, the data was collected by total 322 patients of Polio consisting of 242 male patients with a percentage of 75.2 and 80 female patients with a percentage of 24.8. In this 184 patients observed in favor of Polio Immunization with a percentage of 57.1 whereas about 42.9 percentage of the patients observed in not favor of immunization, indicating no significance difference in patient’s opinion gender wise. Moreover, the odds ratio indicating that male are in favor of Polio immunization as compare female patients by more than 1.374 times. The study concluded no difference in the previous experience of Polio in family gender wise whereas male patients have more exposure to Polio in family as compare female patients by more than 1.023 times. The results indicated that there is a difference in the Polio vaccination to child gender wise and observed that male patients have more exposure toward polio vaccination as compare female patients by more than 1.397 times. The study concluded that information regarding the causing of Polio by Virus depends upon the education level of the parents. The study showed cross table of various facility to patients like proper flesh system, washing of hands and availability of foods and water in the case and control group of patients. The study showed that 55 patients in the control group has fear of infertility by Polio vaccine while 45 patients have no as such fear in control group whereas 184 patients in the case group has fear of infertility while 38 patients have no such fear in control group. The study concluded a difference in the fear of infertility caused by Polio vaccination and observed that patients with vaccination have more exposure toward infertility as compare patients no vaccination by more than 1.499 times. The study concluded that perception regarding the effective of immunization in preventing against Polio does not depends upon education level of parents and the value of odds ratio obtained as 0.520 as yes to no by information point of view of parents regarding the immunization as preventing way.