Health care seeking behaviour of mothers towards diarrheal disease of children less than 5 years in Mekelle city, North Ethiopia
| Autor: | Kahsu Gebrekirstos, Atsede Fantahun, Ashenafi Damte, Tedros Fissehaye |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Diarrhea Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent 030231 tropical medicine Prevalence lcsh:Medicine Mothers General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Environmental health Epidemiology Health care medicine Humans Health care seeking 030212 general & internal medicine lcsh:Science (General) Socioeconomic status lcsh:QH301-705.5 Children Mother Health seeking business.industry lcsh:R Infant General Medicine Patient Acceptance of Health Care Seeking behavior Research Note Cross-Sectional Studies lcsh:Biology (General) Child Preschool Female Ethiopia medicine.symptom Diarrheal disease business lcsh:Q1-390 |
| Zdroj: | BMC Research Notes BMC Research Notes, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1756-0500 |
| Popis: | Objective To assess the health care seeking behavior of mothers on diarrheal disease of under five children and associated factors in Mekelle City, Northern Ethiopia. Result This study revealed that 72.5% (n = 58) of the mothers who reported their children had diarrhea had sought health care facilities. Three quarter, (75.9%) of them was seeking health in the public health care facility. Majority, 89.3% of those children who had severe diarrhea sought at health care facilities. In the multivariable analysis, severity of diarrhea (P = 0.04) and blood in stool) were the significantly associated factors with health seeking behavior of mothers for childhood diarrhea. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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