title: Tetanus vaccination status and its associated factors among women attending a primary healthcare center in Cairo governorate, Egypt.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Maintaining maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) elimination status in Egypt requires continued strengthening of routine tetanus toxoid (TT) immunization services for pregnant women.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To measure the frequency rate of TT vaccination among women attending the well-baby clinic at the El-Darb El-Ahmar primary healthcare center in Cairo governorate and to identify different associated factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a cross sectional study that targeted 277 mothers who attended the well-baby clinic at the El-Darb El-Ahmar primary healthcare center. Mothers were interviewed by a questionnaire inquiring about their sociodemographic characteristics, obstetric history, details of the last pregnancy, TT vaccination status and knowledge of the TT vaccine, and MNT disease.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results showed that 60.6% had taken all required doses of TT vaccine and 42.6% of the mothers studied were fully protected against MNT in their last birth. The rate of vaccination was found to be affected by mothers' socioeconomic level, education level, place of receiving antenatal care, health education about importance of TT vaccine, knowledge of mothers about NT disease and TT vaccine and the source of this knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Azza M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hassan
authors.forename: Ahmed E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Shoman
authors.forename: Nahla F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Abo-Elezz
authors.forename: Marwa M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Amer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004534:Egypt; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016015:Logistic Models; D008875:Middle Aged; D009035:Mothers; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013742:Tetanus / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D013745:Tetanus Toxoid / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016387:Women's Health; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D013745:Tetanus Toxoid