Factors Associated with Incomplete Vaccination among Rabies Exposures at Yangsisurat District in Mahasarakham Province

Abstract

This study is a cross-sectional analytical research aimed to study the factors that are related to incomplete vaccination in people who meet the criteria for rabies exposure and to study the epidemiology of rabies exposure of Yang Si Surat District Mahasarakham province. There were 773 participants who were exposed to rabies by selecting specifically.

The results showed that 54.26% of contact persons were females and 26.87% were 45-54 years of age. There were 72.87% farmers. Of the total, 51.16% had a good level of knowledge and 56.33% had a good attitude. There were 27.91% received incomplete rabies vaccine. Factors related to incomplete vaccination meet the criteria for rabies exposure was statistical significance at 0.05, i.e., not studying (OR= 9.51, 95% CI: 2.42-37.32, p-value=0.001), employment (OR=7.08, 95% CI: 3.09-16.23, p-value=<0.001), people who had pets (OR=2.14, 95% CI: 1.28-3.55, p-value=0.003), the unavailable of vaccination (OR=9.24, 95% CI: 2.24-38.08, p-value=0.002) and not bad knowledge level (OR=1.81, 95% CI: 1.10-2.98, p-value=0.019)

According to this study, rabies contact persons were incomplete vaccinated. Therefore, public health officials must try to understand them with the exposure to know the effects of the advantages and disadvantages of rabies vaccination. The vaccine tracking system should be arranged and developing a service system for easy access to prevent the missing appointment of the contact persons. There should be a qualitative study in order to reach the problems and factors that affect to the incomplete vaccination that are not fully qualified in all aspects By using participation and using data to analyze reasonably for further development.