Health care seeking behaviour of mothers towards diarrheal disease of children less than 5 years in Mekelle city, North Ethiopia

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 facil...

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Autores principales: Fissehaye, Tedros, Damte, Ashenafi, Fantahun, Atsede, Gebrekirstos, Kahsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6196468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30348211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3850-3
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author Fissehaye, Tedros
Damte, Ashenafi
Fantahun, Atsede
Gebrekirstos, Kahsu
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-61964682018-10-30 Health care seeking behaviour of mothers towards diarrheal disease of children less than 5 years in Mekelle city, North Ethiopia Fissehaye, Tedros Damte, Ashenafi Fantahun, Atsede Gebrekirstos, Kahsu BMC Res Notes Research Note 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. BioMed Central 2018-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6196468/ /pubmed/30348211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3850-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Fissehaye, Tedros
Damte, Ashenafi
Fantahun, Atsede
Gebrekirstos, Kahsu
Health care seeking behaviour of mothers towards diarrheal disease of children less than 5 years in Mekelle city, North Ethiopia
title Health care seeking behaviour of mothers towards diarrheal disease of children less than 5 years in Mekelle city, North Ethiopia
title_full Health care seeking behaviour of mothers towards diarrheal disease of children less than 5 years in Mekelle city, North Ethiopia
title_fullStr Health care seeking behaviour of mothers towards diarrheal disease of children less than 5 years in Mekelle city, North Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Health care seeking behaviour of mothers towards diarrheal disease of children less than 5 years in Mekelle city, North Ethiopia
title_short Health care seeking behaviour of mothers towards diarrheal disease of children less than 5 years in Mekelle city, North Ethiopia
title_sort health care seeking behaviour of mothers towards diarrheal disease of children less than 5 years in mekelle city, north ethiopia
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6196468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30348211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3850-3
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