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Mothers' empowerment status was assessed using standard \u2018Measure DHS\u2019 questions regarding their involvement in decision-making related to health, household possessions and visits among family and friends. Education was categorised as no education, primary, secondary and higher education. Results of multinomial regression analyses were reported as adjusted OR with 95% CI. We adjusted for age, wealth index, urban\/rural residence, place of delivery, and antenatal and postnatal visits.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Only 56.4% (n=3936) of the children received complete polio vaccination. Women with no education had significantly higher odds of their child receiving no polio vaccination (OR 2.34, 95% CI 1.05 to 5.18; p&lt;0.01) and incomplete vaccination (OR 1.40, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.87; p&lt;0.01). Further, unempowered women also had significantly higher odds of not taking their child for any polio vaccination (OR 1.58, 95% CI 1.17 to 2.12; p&lt;0.01) and incomplete vaccination (OR 1.18, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.41; p=0.04).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Illiteracy, socioeconomic status and empowerment of women remained significant factors linked to poorer uptake of routine polio vaccination.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2016-013853","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,10]],"date-time":"2017-03-10T20:10:19Z","timestamp":1489176619000},"page":"e013853","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":62,"title":["Maternal education, empowerment, economic status and child polio vaccination uptake in Pakistan: a population based cross sectional study"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0281-7650","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad Tahir","family":"Khan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Health, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sidra","family":"Zaheer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Health, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kashif","family":"Shafique","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Health, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan"},{"name":"Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025121514544208000_7.3.e013853.1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"ReliefWeb. 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