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A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding prevention and management of diarrhoea among the mothers of under five years children in SDH, West Bengal
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Divya Chapagain
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KEYWORDS: Assess, Knowledge, Prevention, Management of diarrhoea, Siliguri SDH.
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ABSTRACT Introduction: Diarrhea remains the second leading cause of death among children under five years globally. Nearly one in every five child deaths, about 1.6 million each year, due to diarrhea. Further, diarrhea kills more young children than malaria, measles and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome combined. The study aimed to assess the demographic variables, the knowledge of mother of under 5-year children and to find the association between the level of knowledge of mother of under 5-year children on diarrhea and its management with selected demographic variables. Material and method: The populations comprised of the people of which 60 samples were selected, this subject was selected by purposive sampling technique. The data collection tools were; Self structured questionnaire to obtain demographic data. Self-structured questionnaire to assess the level of knowledge regarding prevention and management of diarrhoea among the mothers under five-year children in SDH. Content validity of the tool was determined by the experts. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. Major Findings: Most of the mothers (43%) were in age between. Number of children (50%). Majority of sample (40%) were received educated. Most of the samples’ religions were (90%). Majority of sample (10%) were received knowledge from mothers. The study shows (4%) samples had good knowledge, (10%) had average knowledge and (86%) hand poor knowledge. The calculated mean is, median is, mode is for knowledge regarding prevention and management of diarrhoea among the mothers of under five years children in SDH, W.B. The association between the knowledge scores of the respondents with selected demographic variables such as age, number of children, education, religion previous source of knowledge was not significant at table of significance. Conclusion: Study concluded the mother attending the pediatric OPD have poor knowledge about prevention and management of diarrhoea, the association between demographic variables and knowledge questionnaire among the mother of under five years children attending in pediatric OPD is statistically non-significant.
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Divya Chapagain (July-2024). A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding prevention and management of diarrhoea among the mothers of under five years children in SDH, West Bengal. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(7), b210-b224. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2407125.pdf
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Volume 9 Issue 7, July-2024
Pages : b210-b224
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Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_224945
Published Paper Id: IJNRD2407125
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Research Area: Medical Science
Country: Siliguri, West Bengal, India
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