Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Mothers on Acute Respiratory Infection in Children under Five Years in Saudi Arabia, 2017
Alluqmani, M., Aloufi, A., Abdulwahab, A., alsharif, A., AlShathri, A., AlShehri, M., aharbi, S., Hawsawi, S., Alshmmary, N., Alshammari, B. (2017). Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Mothers on Acute Respiratory Infection in Children under Five Years in Saudi Arabia, 2017. EKB Journal Management System, 69(2), 1959-1963. doi: 10.12816/0040629
Maha Fahad Alluqmani; Abdulrahman Abdullah Aloufi; Amnah Makki Al Abdulwahab; Abdullah Ismail Khalil alsharif; Abdullah Abdulaziz A AlShathri; Mosab Shaher AlShehri; Samah Ali aharbi; Samaher Ibrahim Hawsawi; Nawal Ahmed Alshmmary; Bati Jassim I Alshammari. "Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Mothers on Acute Respiratory Infection in Children under Five Years in Saudi Arabia, 2017". EKB Journal Management System, 69, 2, 2017, 1959-1963. doi: 10.12816/0040629
Alluqmani, M., Aloufi, A., Abdulwahab, A., alsharif, A., AlShathri, A., AlShehri, M., aharbi, S., Hawsawi, S., Alshmmary, N., Alshammari, B. (2017). 'Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Mothers on Acute Respiratory Infection in Children under Five Years in Saudi Arabia, 2017', EKB Journal Management System, 69(2), pp. 1959-1963. doi: 10.12816/0040629
Alluqmani, M., Aloufi, A., Abdulwahab, A., alsharif, A., AlShathri, A., AlShehri, M., aharbi, S., Hawsawi, S., Alshmmary, N., Alshammari, B. Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Mothers on Acute Respiratory Infection in Children under Five Years in Saudi Arabia, 2017. EKB Journal Management System, 2017; 69(2): 1959-1963. doi: 10.12816/0040629

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Mothers on Acute Respiratory Infection in Children under Five Years in Saudi Arabia, 2017

The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine
Article 27, Volume 69, Issue 2, October 2017, Page 1959-1963  XML PDF (337.78 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.12816/0040629
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Authors
Maha Fahad Alluqmani1; Abdulrahman Abdullah Aloufi2; Amnah Makki Al Abdulwahab3; Abdullah Ismail Khalil alsharif4; Abdullah Abdulaziz A AlShathri5; Mosab Shaher AlShehri6; Samah Ali aharbi1; Samaher Ibrahim Hawsawi7; Nawal Ahmed Alshmmary8; Bati Jassim I Alshammari8
1Ibn Sina National College
2King Salman Military Hospital
3King Khalid University,
4abuk University
5King Faisal University
6Imam University
7Umm Al-Qura University
8Northen Border University
Abstract
Background: management and prevention of acute respiratory infections (ARI) is a worldwide problem especially in developing countries. Mothers are the caregivers of their children and thus their knowledge could be used as preventive measure for the disease.
Objectives: assessing the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of Saudi mothers toward ARI in children less than five years old in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Methods: the study included 733 mothers admitted to a random sample of PHC from different districts of KSA. The mothers were interviewed and asked to fill up a predesigned questionnaire during the period from February 2017 to June 2017. The questionnaire comprised of 4 parts including the mothers’ demographics and KAP. Results: the mean age of mothers was 41.3 years old and the duration of marriage was from 10-20 years in most of mothers (41.9%). The majority of participants had college degree (53.9%) and 44% of subjects were working mothers. Most of subjects had good knowledge about that ARI is a disease of both upper and lower respiratory infection, pneumonia as a complication of ARI, the overuse of antibiotic and bacterial resistance and cough being the most common symptom of ARI. Poor knowledge was related to the use of antibiotics and consulting a physician if children had ARI. The knowledge score of mothers was good in 46% of subjects and 54% have insufficient knowledge. The attitude and practice of mothers was poor among more than half of the participants.Conclusion: most of Saudi mothers had inadequate, knowledge, attitude and practice toward ARI. The better understanding and sufficient knowledge was significantly correlated with young ages, short duration of marriage and higher education.
 
Keywords
KSA; KAP; Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI); primary health care
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