Background Vaccination is recognized as an important immunization tool which is used in preventing and eradicating communicable diseases. Even though increase in global vaccination coverage, many children in the world particularly in low resource countries still are left unvaccinated and it remains to be a public health problem.
Objective To identify determinants of incomplete vaccination among children 12-23 months of age in Semen Bench district, Bench Maji Zone, Southwest Ethiopia, 2018.
Methods Community based case-control study design was employed. By using simple random sampling a total 312 children aged between 12-23 months from households were selected from 7 kebeles in Semen Bench district, Bench Maji Zone southern regional state. Data was entered into Epi Inof version 7 and was exported into SPSS version 21.0 for analysis. . Both bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed to identify associated factors. P values <0.05 with 95% confidence level were used to declare statistical significance.
Results A total of 312 respondents participated in the study with a response rate of 100%. The multivariable analysis indicated that respondents having no antenatal visit [AOR=8.3(95%CI; 1.87-36.91], giving birth in home delivery AOR=4.5(95%CI; 1.411-14.27], and respondents having no postnatal visit AOR=4.2(95%CI; 1.67-10.41], were some of the variables continued to have statistically significant predictors of incomplete vaccination.
Conclusion This study was identified some of the factors associated with incomplete vaccination. In order to decrease neonatal mortality resulted from communicable diseases Strengthen antenatal care visit and prompting postnatal service and institutional delivery is very important in addition to this it is crucial that, local programmatic intervention should be strengthened to promote awareness of the community on the importance of Vaccination.