Abstract
We describe mothers' perception about signs and symptoms, causes of the illness, and healthcare seeking behaviors related to pneumonia and express the major modifiable barriers to seeking timely treatment when their under-5 children had pneumonia in rural Bangladesh. Using focus group discussion, we understood mothers' perception and healthcare seeking behavior of childhood pneumonia. Although mothers described pneumonia as a serious life threatening disease in young children but most of the mothers (n = 24) could not diagnose whether their child had pneumonia or not. Environmental factors such as dust particles, spread from coughing mother, and drinking cold water or playing with water were perceived as the causes for pneumonia. Three common barriers noted were as follows: illness was not perceived as serious enough or distance from healthcare facility or lack of money at household for seeking treatment outside. Most of the rural mothers did not have knowledge about severity of childhood pneumonia.
Highlights
Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI), pneumonia, are the leading and largest single cause of mortality among
Among the under-5 children who die in Bangladesh each year, 14% are due to pneumonia [2]
The purpose of focus group discussion (FGD) was to obtain insights into the contextual issues related to caregivers’ perception about pneumonia and its clinical features, causes and healthcare seeking behaviors related to pneumonia, and barriers for seeking timely treatment of childhood pneumonia in rural Bangladesh
Summary
Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI), pneumonia, are the leading and largest single cause of mortality among
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