Abstract
Background: Childhood diarrheal diseases have a major impact on morbidity and mortality and these deaths are due to dehydration and mismanagement or delayed management of the disease. The mothers’ knowledge in management of diarrhea is likely related to its mortality and morbidity. The study aimed to determine the association between socio demographic attributes and mother’s knowledge on childhood diarrhea. Materials and Methods: In this cross sectional analytic study, 170 mothers who had at least one child aged below five years old were selected purposively from the out-patient department of ICDDR,B, Dhaka. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire by face to face interview. The level of knowledge was categorized as poor, average and good. Univariate and bivariate analysis were done with level of significance P<0.05. Results: The mean age of the respondents was 27 (SD=±5.6) years. Among them 46.5% were educated up to primary level and 47% had average monthly income between 5001 and 10000 taka. In the case of accessibility to mass media, 20% were found who never watch TV, 75.9% participants were found who never listen to radio, and 87.6% were found who never read newspaper. Despite the level of average knowledge was 59.5% but the proportion of the level of good knowledge was 17% among the respondents. Socio-demographic characteristics such as age, education and income (p<0.001) were significantly associated with mothers knowledge. Conclusion: The mothers had inadequate knowledge about diarrhea and their socio-demographic parameters are strongly associated with mother’s knowledge regarding diarrhea.
Highlights
Diarrheal diseases is one of the two major killer diseases in children aged less than five years in the developing world and are major causes of morbidity and mortality in children in this region [1,2,3,4]
All interviewees agreed that their children have had diarrhea in their life-times
Occurring diarrhea in several times per day was higher among male children (57%) than female but statistically no significant differences between male 87 (54%) and female 74 (46%) under-fives were observed with respect of diarrheal episodes (P = NS) (Table 2)
Summary
Diarrheal diseases is one of the two major killer diseases in children aged less than five years in the developing world and are major causes of morbidity and mortality in children in this region [1,2,3,4]. Deaths in diarrheal cases are largely attributable to it Sometimes it imagines that diarrhea is an old and non-significant problem, but the reality is that diarrhea is still a very serious problem in developing countries. These diseases are more to be found in developing countries like Bangladesh where the population density, high urbanization and lack of clean water and sanitation provide suitable setting for the infectious diseases like diarrhoea to spread. The study aimed to determine the association between socio demographic attributes and mother’s knowledge on childhood diarrhea
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