Mumps, measles and rubella vaccination: a pragmatic study |
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Authors: | G.C. Sutton |
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Affiliation: | Pontefract Health Authority, Ackton Hospital. |
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Abstract: | The acceptability, adverse effects and uptake of MMR vaccine were assessed in an open pragmatic study. 96.5% of parents chose vaccination with MMR rather than monocomponent measles. Few parents could correctly name a complication of mumps (40.4%), measles (21.7%) or rubella (25.3%). In the three weeks following vaccination, 15.9% of infants had local reactions, 26.4% had rashes, and 30.3% fever. There was no increase in uptake of measles vaccination during the study, but it led to improvements in programme organisation which subsequently boosted coverage. |
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