Situação vacinal de estudantes adolescentes

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: In recent years Brazil has experienced a decay of vaccination coverage, with rates under the expected marks, allowing for controlled or completely eradicated diseases to return. OBJETIVO: It is therefore proposed to evaluate the vaccination status and the immunization record of children/teenagers enrolled from the 4th to the 9th year of Local Schools in Palmas-TO. METHODOLOGY: This is a descriptive, exploratory, field, cross-sectional, with quantitative approach study. Study conducted from november 2020 to april 2021, through a non-probabilistic convenience sample, with vaccination status analysis of students from the four regions of the city: Center, South, North and Rural area. A Lottery was held for the selection. RESULTS: There were 145 students vaccination records evaluated. The average age was 11 years and 5 months, with a higher participation percentage of female students (78; 53,79%). It was found that 91 (62,76%) of the students’ vaccination status were in overdue. The delayed vaccines are: Yellow Fever (febre amarela) 1ªst and 2ª nd dose,dT, MMR (triplice viral), Meningitis C, Meningitis ACWY, HPV 1ª and 2ª doses. It was observed a correlation between gender and vaccination status in delay, in which females had presented a higher vaccination delay rate. CONCLUSION: More than half of the sample presented an overdue vaccination status, being Yellow Fever 2nd dose and Meningitis ACWY the ones with the higher percentage delay, both of them implanted in 2020. It may cause health issues to the general population, since controlled diseases could resurface, wasting years of effort and investment.