Hepatitis B vaccination of newborn infants in rural China: evaluation of a village-based, out-of-cold-chain delivery strategy
Lixia Wang, Junhua Li, Haiping Chen, Fangjun Li, Gregory L Armstrong, Carib Nelson, Wenyuan Ze, Craig N Shapiro
Volume 85, Number 9, September 2007, 688-694
Table 2. Reasons given by parents for late administration of hepatitis B vaccine at birth to children born at home or in hospital, Hunan, China
| Reasons for late birth dose | Children born at home (%) |
Children born in hospital (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before study(n = 378) | After study(n = 235) | Before study(n = 506) | After study(n = 122) | ||
| Not informed by provider about the importance of receiving hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth | 298 (78.8) | 114 (48.5) | 392 (77.5) | 32 (26.2) | |
| Residence was too far from the immunization clinic | 42 (11.1) | 44 (18.7) | 14 (2.8) | 4 (3.3) | |
| Infant had “low birth weight” | – | 4 (1.7) | – | 29 (23.8) | |
| Did not want the newborn infant vaccinated | 15 (4.0) | 22 (9.4) | 21 (4.2) | 2 (1.6) | |
| Vaccine not available at immunization clinic | 15 (4.0) | 4 (1.7) | 23 (4.5) | 6 (4.9) | |
| Considered vaccine to be too expensive | 4 (1.1) | 1 (0.4) | 7 (1.4) | 1 (0.8) | |
| Other | 13 (3.4) | 46 (19.6) | 49 (9.7) | 48 (39.3) | |