Abstract
Health care seeking behavior among children, aged<5 years, is strongly influenced by maternal practices as the mothers contribute to the decision making. In this study, the mothers’ knowledge, attitude and practices were studied as well as the factors responsible for the health seeking behavior in diarrheal diseases was examined. Two hundred and thirty mothers of children, aged<5 years were sampled. The study showed that the education, occupation, attitude and, knowledge of the mother was strongly associated to positive health seeking behavior in diarrheal diseases. The factors affecting the health care seeking behavior were the decision making abilities of the mothers and the source from which they got the information regarding diarrhea. The income of the household was also associated with the attitude and the practices of the mother for diarrhea. Among social factors, caste was seen to be associated with the health seeking behavior. Thus, there is need for the information and effective communication between the health workers and the mothers and the betterment of the public health facilities in the rural areas.
Highlights
Diarrheal diseases account for roughly 530,000 deaths a year, 9% of total deaths among children under-five years of age, making them the second most common cause of child deaths worldwide
Since the study was conducted to find out the reasons and the factors associated with the health seeking behavior among 0-5 years’ children when they suffer from diarrhea with their mothers as the respondents, the universe was the mothers of the 232 children participated in the study from the Talegaon Primary Health Center (PHC) area
The association between the two variables shows that the caste of the household has an impact upon the knowledge of the mother regarding the seriousness of diarrhea in the children below 5 years of age
Summary
Diarrheal diseases account for roughly 530,000 deaths a year, 9% of total deaths among children under-five years of age, making them the second most common cause of child deaths worldwide. Over half of the deaths occur in just five countries: India, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Ethiopia. Despite this heavy toll, progress is being made. An estimated 801,000 children younger than 5 years of age perish from diarrhea each year, mostly in developing countries. This amounts to 11% of the 7.6 million deaths of children under the age of five and means that about 2,200 children are dying every day as a result of diarrheal diseases. Just 15 countries account for almost three quarters of all deaths from diarrhea among children under five years of age annually [1-5]
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