Knowledge Attitude and Practices of Mothers about Diarrhea in Children under 5 years
Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding diarrhea among mothers of children less than 5 years of age in civil hospital Karachi. Methodology: It is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at Pediatrics ward and OPD Civil HospitalKarachi during July - August 201...
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| author | Yasmin Mumtaz Mubbashir Zafar Zara Mumtaz |
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| description | Objective:
To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding diarrhea among mothers of children less than 5 years of age in civil hospital Karachi.
Methodology:
It is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at Pediatrics ward and OPD Civil HospitalKarachi during July - August 2011. Non-random Convenient sampling was adopted to sample 200 subjects by interviewing mothers after taking their consent. Mothers have at least one child less than 5 years of age were included.
Results:
Mothers' knowledge regarding the causes of diarrhea; contaminated water (17%), eating mud (14%), teething (10%). About signs of dehydration, 40% mothers gave unspecific signs and 26% responded with sunken eye as the only sign while 35% answered two signs (thirst and dry hair/skin). Mothers who knew how to prepare ORS were 80%. Regarding prevention of diarrhea, 15.5% mothers knew to cover food and 14.5% to boil water. Regarding health care seeking practices 52.5% mothers took the child to the doctor after 2 days, 30% mothers did self-medication.
Conclusion:
There is inadequate maternal knowledge; attitude and practices regarding diarrhea and its prevention in the population studied. There is need of health education to mothers about diarrhea, its causes prevention and proper treatment.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5ea1ee28f1b6433fb0768d211c0cdb162023-05-29T03:10:52ZengDow University of Health SciencesJournal of the Dow University of Health Sciences1995-21982410-21802014-04-0181Knowledge Attitude and Practices of Mothers about Diarrhea in Children under 5 yearsYasmin Mumtaz0Mubbashir Zafar1Zara Mumtaz2Department of Community Medicine, DowUniversity of Health Sciences,Karachi,PakistaPG Student FCPS II, Department of Community Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.Department of Community Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding diarrhea among mothers of children less than 5 years of age in civil hospital Karachi. Methodology: It is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at Pediatrics ward and OPD Civil HospitalKarachi during July - August 2011. Non-random Convenient sampling was adopted to sample 200 subjects by interviewing mothers after taking their consent. Mothers have at least one child less than 5 years of age were included. Results: Mothers' knowledge regarding the causes of diarrhea; contaminated water (17%), eating mud (14%), teething (10%). About signs of dehydration, 40% mothers gave unspecific signs and 26% responded with sunken eye as the only sign while 35% answered two signs (thirst and dry hair/skin). Mothers who knew how to prepare ORS were 80%. Regarding prevention of diarrhea, 15.5% mothers knew to cover food and 14.5% to boil water. Regarding health care seeking practices 52.5% mothers took the child to the doctor after 2 days, 30% mothers did self-medication. Conclusion: There is inadequate maternal knowledge; attitude and practices regarding diarrhea and its prevention in the population studied. There is need of health education to mothers about diarrhea, its causes prevention and proper treatment. https://www.jduhs.com/index.php/jduhs/article/view/1460DiarrheamotherchildattitudepracticesCivil Hospital |
| spellingShingle | Yasmin Mumtaz Mubbashir Zafar Zara Mumtaz Knowledge Attitude and Practices of Mothers about Diarrhea in Children under 5 years Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences Diarrhea mother child attitude practices Civil Hospital |
| title | Knowledge Attitude and Practices of Mothers about Diarrhea in Children under 5 years |
| title_full | Knowledge Attitude and Practices of Mothers about Diarrhea in Children under 5 years |
| title_fullStr | Knowledge Attitude and Practices of Mothers about Diarrhea in Children under 5 years |
| title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge Attitude and Practices of Mothers about Diarrhea in Children under 5 years |
| title_short | Knowledge Attitude and Practices of Mothers about Diarrhea in Children under 5 years |
| title_sort | knowledge attitude and practices of mothers about diarrhea in children under 5 years |
| topic | Diarrhea mother child attitude practices Civil Hospital |
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