Table 4 Participants attitudes towards Polio immunization
Attitude questions | Participants’ responses N (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Strongly disagree | Disagree | Agree | Strongly agree | |
Poliomyelitis is a very serious disease | 130 (16.9) | 189 (24.6) | 392 (51) | 57 (7.4) |
The problem of poliomyelitis is very severe in your area | 78 (10.2) | 201 (26.2) | 183 (23.8) | 306 (39.8) |
Polio vaccines are not capable to reduce the transmission of infection | 65 (8.5) | 246 (32) | 388 (50.5) | 69 (9) |
Polio vaccines should be appropriately stored in order to be effective | 82 (10.7) | 282 (36.7) | 137 (17.8) | 267 (34.8) |
Infected children should not be brought to public place because of risk of infection transmission | 78 (10.2) | 112 (14.6) | 212 (27.6) | 366 (47.7) |
All children should be vaccinated for polio | 171 (22.3) | 211 (27.5) | 88 (11.5) | 298 (38.8) |
Communities should actively participate in controlling poliomyelitis in Pakistan | 120 (15.6) | 235 (30.6) | 114 (14.8) | 299 (38.9) |
People with poliomyelitis are less productive than non-disabled ones. | 101 (13.2) | 229 (29.8) | 132 (17.2) | 306 (39.8) |