A study of mother’s practices toward immunization for children under six years in Babylon Province

To assess mother’s practices toward immunization for children under six years in babylon province and to determine the association between mother’s practices and their sociodemographic characteristics. A cross sectional descriptive study consisting of (260) mothers were interviewed at primary health care centers in babylon Province coming for immunization their children in a period from 18 February to 1 April 2018. Findings of the study revealed that less than half of children were partially immunized for their age and showed that there was a significant association between mother’s practices with their age and child immunization status up-to age. Less than half percent of the studied mothers had poor practices toward childhood immunization while more than sixty percent had fair scores and the minority had good scores.