Avaliação do cumprimento do calendário de vacinação dos adolescentes de uma escola municipal

Evaluation of accomplishment of the vaccination schedule of adolescents from a public school

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the prevalence of vaccination coverage in a group of 67 adolescents from a public school in the city
of Ananindeua-PA, Brazil. Methods: This is an epidemiological, sectional, observational, descriptive study. It was done by
analyzing the information contained in the vaccination cards of students. On the day of action, a screening was initially
performed to check for weight and height of young people, and then the questionnaires were administered to adolescents
and their parents or responsible. After analysis of the vaccination cards, new ones were distributed with the labeling of
vaccines needed and the time-bound for the immunizations. In the fi nal step, students who had delayed vaccination records
were submitted to immunization by competent professionals working in Family Health Strategy. In addition, young people
and those responsible by them received orientation on the importance of vaccines. Results: The prevalence of adolescents
with vaccination card was 64.1%, and among the total of young people, only 17.9% had vaccination coverage. The vaccine
with the highest demand was yellow fever (88.1%), followed by MMR (79.1%), tetanus and diphtheria (Td) (73.1%) and
hepatitis B (47.8%). Conclusion: Our fi ndings demonstrated defi ciency of compliance with the immunization schedule in
adolescence, which highlights the need for the implementation and performance of the School Health Project in order to
orient and sensitize adolescents and those responsible by them regarding the importance of continuing the immunization
schedule, besides supplying vaccines at the school to achieve the goals proposed by the Ministry of Health of Brazil.