Although we found a higher prevalence of incompletely immunized children belonging to unmarried mothers compared to married mothers (24.5% versus 13.7%), this did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.048) in bivariate analysis.
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Prevalence and factors associated with incomplete immunization of children (12-23 months) in Kwabre East District, Ashanti Region, Ghana.
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In these analyses the community of residence (χ 2 (3) = 10.624, p = 0.014) and mother’s knowledge of number of oral polio vaccine doses (χ 2 (1) = 4.298, p = 0.038) were found to be associated with immunization status (Tables 4 and 5 ), whiles mother’s marital status showed borderline significance (χ 2 (1) = 3.9181, p = 0.048).