The Role of Early Vaccination in Preventing Severe Pediatric Infectious Diseases: A Perspective Study.

Abstract

Background: Public health practice of early childhood vaccination provides a fundamental strategy to block severe diseases which affect young children. People who get vaccinated develop better immunity which decreases the number of infections while cutting down hospital stay and disease complications. The continued reluctance toward vaccines diminishes population-wide immunization levels which lets severe diseases come back and make unvaccinated children more sick.

Study Design: A Perspective Study.

Place and duration of study. Department of pediatric MTI,LRH Peshawar  from Janurary  2019 to june 2019

Objectives: to evaluate early vaccination effectiveness through a comparison of infection frequency and hospital stays between different vaccination groups including full vaccination and partial vaccination and unvaccinated children to establish vaccine protection measures.

Methods: this study conducted in Department of Pediatrics Lady Reading Hospital at MTI Peshawar from January until June of 2019. A vaccination status classification relied on age groups from 0–5 years among pediatric patients. The Study evaluated infection statistics and hospital admission data. SPSS version 24.0 conducted the statistical analysis through chi-square tests while p values less than 0.05 demonstrated statistical importance.

Results: 300 children participated in the study whose average age amounted to 2.8 ± 1.5 years. Severe infections occurred in 12% of fully vaccinated patients whereas the partially vaccinated group experienced these infections at a rate of 28% and the unvaccinated group showed the highest frequency at 45% (p < 0.001). Study data indicated that fully vaccinated children experienced hospitalization at only 8% while unvaccinated children required hospitalization at 32% and the difference was statistically significant (p < 0.001).

Conclusion: Medical experts have proven that an early vaccination program effectively minimizes both the quantity of pediatric infectious diseases and their dangerous complications. Children who received the full vaccine dosage experience decreased rates of disease acquisition and hospital stays. The public health along with disease prevention both require vaccination awareness initiatives to boost immunization compliance.