[Mothers' attitudes and behaviors regarding vaccination in the outpatient clinic of Hospital Robert Reid Cabral]. / Actitudes, practicas de las madres sobre la vacunacion en la consulta externa del Hospital Robert Reid Cabral.

PIP: Concern over relatively low rates of vaccination in the Dominican Republic prompted a study of the attitudes and practices of mothers attending outpatient clinics at a children's hospital in Santo Domingo. 200 mothers were prospectively interviewed in late 1991. 57% of the children were incompletely vaccinated and 7.5% were completely unvaccinated. 98.5% of the mothers stated their belief that vaccination protects children. 125 of the mothers reported they had access to orientation about vaccination. 80% of the children whose mothers had received orientation were completely vaccinated, compared to only 18.7% of children whose mothers had not received orientation. 9% of the study mothers had children who died of diseases preventable by vaccination, primarily measles. Only 59% of the children of sample mothers had been vaccinated against measles.^ieng