A Prospective Study on Role of Clinical Pharmacist in Delivering the Clinical Pharmacy Services to the Mother in Pediatric Immunization in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Abstract

The aim of the study is role of clinical pharmacist in delivering the clinical pharmacy services to the mother in pediatric immunization in a tertiary care hospital for vaccination. It has been observed in the present study that the knowledge of mothers on immunization is very poor in general ranging from 5.3% for DPT to 29.3% for other vaccines except there was a fairly good knowledge on OPV (78%). The rate of immunization was fairly high (95.7%). Participation in Pulse Polio Programme was seen in all the 100% of the children. Although, there was a poor knowledge on immunization, cent percent mothers were having favourable attitude towards immunization. In this study, 68.05% of the mothers were illiterate, among them majority had lack of knowledge on immunization, this might be the factor which has affected poor immunization coverage in this group. The missed opportunities for immunization is observed to be15.8%. We found that out of 164 paediatric population, around 29.63% experienced adverse events following immunization. A description of the characteristics of the adverse reactions presented would show that the great majority were mild in nature (pain, injection – site edema, fever etc). About 63% of the adverse event, were fever and 33% swelling. Adverse events remained mostly for a day.