RESUMEN
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