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Access to oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation for treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases in Sudan
OBJECTIVES: The decline in diarrhoeal disease-related mortality globally has been attributed to the use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) and zinc supplementation. However, data on ORS and zinc supplementation in Sudan are scarce. We aimed to investigate the access to ORS and zinc treatments and th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487982/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32912300 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05268-y |
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author | Mohamed, Sagad Omer Obeid Alawad, Mansour Osman Alhaj Ahmed, Asaad Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud, Ahmed Abdallah Ali |
author_facet | Mohamed, Sagad Omer Obeid Alawad, Mansour Osman Alhaj Ahmed, Asaad Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud, Ahmed Abdallah Ali |
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description | OBJECTIVES: The decline in diarrhoeal disease-related mortality globally has been attributed to the use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) and zinc supplementation. However, data on ORS and zinc supplementation in Sudan are scarce. We aimed to investigate the access to ORS and zinc treatments and the associated factors, through the analysis of the latest available data from Sudan-Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)-2014 obtained from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). RESULTS: A total of 14,081 children were included in this analysis. During the 2 weeks preceding the survey, 29.3% of these children had a diarrhoeal disease. Only 18.9% and 14.8% of these children had received ORS and zinc supplements, respectively. Whereas children from the higher wealth index groups were more likely to receive ORS treatment (fourth group: AOR = 1.301; 95% CI 1.006–1.682), children from rural areas were less likely to receive ORS treatment (AOR = 0.666; 95% CI 0.552–0.803) and zinc supplements (AOR = 0.603; 95% CI 0.500–0.728). The results indicate the existence of unequal access to treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases among children under 5 years in Sudan. |
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spelling | pubmed-74879822020-09-16 Access to oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation for treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases in Sudan Mohamed, Sagad Omer Obeid Alawad, Mansour Osman Alhaj Ahmed, Asaad Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud, Ahmed Abdallah Ali BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVES: The decline in diarrhoeal disease-related mortality globally has been attributed to the use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) and zinc supplementation. However, data on ORS and zinc supplementation in Sudan are scarce. We aimed to investigate the access to ORS and zinc treatments and the associated factors, through the analysis of the latest available data from Sudan-Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)-2014 obtained from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). RESULTS: A total of 14,081 children were included in this analysis. During the 2 weeks preceding the survey, 29.3% of these children had a diarrhoeal disease. Only 18.9% and 14.8% of these children had received ORS and zinc supplements, respectively. Whereas children from the higher wealth index groups were more likely to receive ORS treatment (fourth group: AOR = 1.301; 95% CI 1.006–1.682), children from rural areas were less likely to receive ORS treatment (AOR = 0.666; 95% CI 0.552–0.803) and zinc supplements (AOR = 0.603; 95% CI 0.500–0.728). The results indicate the existence of unequal access to treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases among children under 5 years in Sudan. BioMed Central 2020-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7487982/ /pubmed/32912300 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05268-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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 in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Mohamed, Sagad Omer Obeid Alawad, Mansour Osman Alhaj Ahmed, Asaad Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud, Ahmed Abdallah Ali Access to oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation for treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases in Sudan |
title | Access to oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation for treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases in Sudan |
title_full | Access to oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation for treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases in Sudan |
title_fullStr | Access to oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation for treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases in Sudan |
title_full_unstemmed | Access to oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation for treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases in Sudan |
title_short | Access to oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation for treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases in Sudan |
title_sort | access to oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation for treatment of childhood diarrhoeal diseases in sudan |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487982/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32912300 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05268-y |
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