Schools as potential vaccination venue for vaccines outside regular EPI schedule: results from a school census in Pakistan

Table 4 Factors identified by respondents for school participation in a school vaccination program in Karachi, Pakistan†

	Gulshan (N = 543)						Jamshed (N = 553)
	First choice		Second choice		Third choice		First choice		Second choice		Third choice
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	N	%	n	%
No response	12	2	38	7	161	30	9	2	57	10	163	29
Permission from parents	363	67	94	17	33	6	408	74	84	15	24	4
Information pamphlets about the vaccine	111	20	254	47	54	10	83	15	302	55	45	8
Involvement of teachers	16	3	92	17	150	28	15	3	60	11	175	32
Duration of vaccination campaign at each school	5	1	17	3	36	7	5	1	11	2	43	8
Involvement of CDGK^$	36	7	48	9	109	20	33	6	39	7	103	19

^†The respondents were given the options from the list and they graded based on order of priority ^$CDGK - City District Government Karachi

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