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South Vietnamese Rural Mothers' Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice in Child Health Care

A study of 600 rural under-five mothers' knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) in child care was performed in 4 southern provinces of Vietnam. The mothers were randomly selected and interviewed about sociodemographic factors, health seeking behaviour, and practice of home care of children and...

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Autores principales: Thac, Dinh, Pedersen, Freddy Karup, Thuong, Tang Chi, Lien, Le Bich, Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Thi, Phuc, Nguyen Ngoc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26881233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9302428
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author Thac, Dinh
Pedersen, Freddy Karup
Thuong, Tang Chi
Lien, Le Bich
Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Thi
Phuc, Nguyen Ngoc
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Thuong, Tang Chi
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description A study of 600 rural under-five mothers' knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) in child care was performed in 4 southern provinces of Vietnam. The mothers were randomly selected and interviewed about sociodemographic factors, health seeking behaviour, and practice of home care of children and neonates. 93.2% of the mothers were literate and well-educated, which has been shown to be important for child health care. 98.5% were married suggesting a stable family, which is also of importance for child health. Only 17.3% had more than 2 children in their family. The mother was the main caretaker in 77.7% of the families. Only 1% would use quacks as their first health contact, but 25.2% would use a private clinic, which therefore eases the burden on the government system. Nearly 69% had given birth in a hospital, 27% in a commune health station, and only 2.7% at home without qualified assistance. 89% were giving exclusive breast feeding at 6 months, much more frequent than in the cities. The majority of the mothers could follow IMCI guideline for home care, although 25.2% did not deal correctly with cough and 38.7% did not deal correctly with diarrhoea. Standard information about Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) based home care is still needed.
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spelling pubmed-47362322016-02-15 South Vietnamese Rural Mothers' Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice in Child Health Care Thac, Dinh Pedersen, Freddy Karup Thuong, Tang Chi Lien, Le Bich Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Thi Phuc, Nguyen Ngoc Biomed Res Int Research Article A study of 600 rural under-five mothers' knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) in child care was performed in 4 southern provinces of Vietnam. The mothers were randomly selected and interviewed about sociodemographic factors, health seeking behaviour, and practice of home care of children and neonates. 93.2% of the mothers were literate and well-educated, which has been shown to be important for child health care. 98.5% were married suggesting a stable family, which is also of importance for child health. Only 17.3% had more than 2 children in their family. The mother was the main caretaker in 77.7% of the families. Only 1% would use quacks as their first health contact, but 25.2% would use a private clinic, which therefore eases the burden on the government system. Nearly 69% had given birth in a hospital, 27% in a commune health station, and only 2.7% at home without qualified assistance. 89% were giving exclusive breast feeding at 6 months, much more frequent than in the cities. The majority of the mothers could follow IMCI guideline for home care, although 25.2% did not deal correctly with cough and 38.7% did not deal correctly with diarrhoea. Standard information about Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) based home care is still needed. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4736232/ /pubmed/26881233 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9302428 Text en Copyright © 2016 Dinh Thac et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lien, Le Bich
Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Thi
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26881233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9302428
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