Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of parents towards immunization of children in Saudi Arabia, 2018

Background: Immunization has shown a major preventive aspects of infectious diseases, disability and death

Objectives: Assessing the Knowledge, attitude and practice [KAP] of Saudi parents in Saudi Arabia the immunization programs for children, Saudi Arabia [KSA], 2018

Methods: It is a cross sectional survey study that was carried among 600 different Saudi parents form different Cities of Saudi Arabia for 3 months from Nov 2017 to Jan 2018. The parents completed a questionnaire that contains 4 different parts about the demographics, knowledge, attitude and practice of parents toward immunization

Results: The included parents have shown a high level of awareness about vaccination regarding the preventive measures and importance of vaccination which resulted in positive attitudes and practice pattern among most of them. The overall KAP was good among most of the parents [87.2%]. The higher KAP level was significantly associated with female gender, higher educational degree and having higher number of children

Conclusion: Most of Saudi parents had good KAP toward immunization which was associated with female gender and higher educational degrees. However, educational programs are still needed to increase the parents' knowledge and practice especially among illiterate and less educated parents living in rural areas

Management of placenta previa during pregnancy

Placenta previa is an obstetric complication [OS] that traditionally shows painless vaginal bleeding in the third trimester secondary to a strange placentation close or covering the interior cervical OS. Due to the inherent risk of hemorrhage, placenta previa may cause serious morbidity and mortality to both the fetus and the mother. Recently there have been two defined types of placenta previa: complete, and marginal. We here review the complications, incidence, risk factors, and management options of placenta previa