Association between maternal use of traditional healer services and child vaccination coverage in Pont-Sonde, Haiti

Table 1 Selected demographics and vaccination coverage among Haitian children five years and under

	N	% [95%CI]
Demographics of mothers
Age (years)	691	100.0
<25	234	34.2 [32.2, 36.2]
25–34	299	42.6 [40.4, 44.8]
35–44	131	19.4 [17.7, 21.2]
>44	27	3.9 [3.2, 4.7]
Education	675	100.0
No formal education	171	24.1 [20.7, 27.9]
Elementary	361	52.5 [48.1, 56.8]
Secondary	143	23.5 [19.9, 27.4]
Religion	683	100.0
Protestant	243	34.0 [30.0, 38.2]
Catholic	224	39.9 [29.9, 38.1]
Vodoo	216	32.1 [28.2, 36.3]
Distance to hospital or health center (minutes)	673	100.0
0–15	116	17.2 [14.9, 21.7]
16–30	148	22.0 [17.1, 28.4]
31–45	140	20.8 [16.8, 25.7]
46–60	73	10.9 [6.5, 14.8]
> 60	196	29.1 [25.3, 34.8]
Child vaccination
BCG	615/648	93.6 [90.9, 95.5]
Polio 1 and Diptheria-Pertussis and Tetanus 1	563/655	83.9 [80.3, 86.9]
Polio 3 and Diptheria-Pertussis and Tetanus 3	420/653	63.1 [58.7, 67.3]
Measles	330/657	51.3 [46.9, 55.7]
Fully immunized	319/683	47.0 [42.7, 51.3]
Use of traditional healer's services	691	100.0
Often or always	120	16.6 [13.6, 20.0]
Sometimes	233	31.7 [27.9, 35.9]
Never	336	51.7 [47.4, 56.0]

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