Health Care : Current Reviews

Risk factors of diarrheal disease in under-five years of age children among health extension model and non-model families in Sheko district rural community, southwest Ethiopia

3^rd Indo-Global Summit & Expo on Healthcare

October 05-07, 2015 New Delhi, India

Teklemichael Gebru

Wolkite University, Ethiopia

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Health Care: Current Reviews

Abstract:

Background: Worldwide diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in under-five year�??s children. In Ethiopia, diarrhea kills half million under-five years of aged children every year. Poor sanitation, unsafe water supply and inadequate personal hygiene are responsible for 90% of its occurrence. The Ethiopian government introduced health extension program in 2002/03. As a strategy of the program; households have been graduated as model families. Therefore the aim of the study was to assess risk factor of diarrheal disease in under-five years of age children among health extension model and non-model families. Method: A community based comparative cross-sectional study design was employed on 825 households that had at least one under-five year of aged children. A summary descriptive, binary and multivariate logistic regression was computed to describe the functional independent predictors of childhood diarrhea. Result: The two weeks diarrhea prevalence in under-five of age children among health extension model and non-model households were 6.4% and 25.5%, respectively. The independent predictors of childhood diarrhea revealed in the study were being mothers hand washing not practice at critical time with soap [OR: 7.40, 95% CI: (2.61, 20.96)], improper refuse disposal [OR: 3.19, 95% CI: (1.89, 5.38)] and being non-model families for the program [OR: 4.50, 95% CI: (2.52, 8.03]. Conclusion: The level of diarrheal disease variation was well explained by maternal personal hygiene, waste disposal system and the effect of health extension program. Thus encouraging families to being model families for the program and enhancing community based behavioral change communication that emphasize on personal hygiene and sanitation should be strengthening to reduce childhood diarrhea.

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Email: teklemichaelgebru@gmail.com