Abstract
Prevalence and risk factors for chest-related symptoms of acute respiratory tract infections among under five children: Case of Ethiopia
Highlights
World Health Organization (WHO) defined acute respiratory infection (ARI) as “a clinical state presenting with rapid breathing more than expected upper limit for age with or without chest in drawing, too sick to feed, nasal discharge, cough, fever with or without auscultatory findings of less than 2 weeks.” The ARI symptoms include a cough accompanied by short, rapid breathing that is chest-related and/or difficult breathing that is chest-related
Results of logistic regression analysis shows that place of residence, sex of household head, education level of mother, partners education, baby postnatal checkup, source of drinking water, age of a child in months, and working status of mother are found to be the significant risk factors for occurrence of ARI symptoms among under five children at 5% level of significance
Even though child mortality has been declining globally as a result of improved child health care interventions and socio-economic development, there were about 7.6 million children who died before celebrating their fifth year of birth day in 2010 [2,3] which is attributed to respiratory tract infections
Summary
World Health Organization (WHO) defined acute respiratory infection (ARI) as “a clinical state presenting with rapid breathing more than expected upper limit for age with or without chest in drawing, too sick to feed, nasal discharge, cough, fever with or without auscultatory findings of less than 2 weeks.” The ARI symptoms include a cough accompanied by short, rapid breathing that is chest-related and/or difficult breathing that is chest-related. ARIs are the major cause of mortality and morbidity among under five children, especially in developing countries. Even though child mortality has been declining globally as a result of improved child health care interventions and socio-economic development, there were about 7.6 million children who died before celebrating their fifth year of birth day in 2010 [2,3] which is attributed to respiratory tract infections. Acute respiratory infection is a major public health problem to morbidity and mortality among under five children. It is estimated that about 7.6 million children were died before celebrating their fifth year of birth day attributed to respiratory tract infections, where 3.6 million deaths were in Africa and about 2.1 million deaths were in Southeast Asia. In Ethiopia acute respiratory infections are major problem accounting for about 10% of under-five deaths each year
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