Risk Factors for Diarrhea in Children under Five Years of Age Attending El Amal Maternal and Child Health in Quasar City: A Cross-sectional study
Hany, A., Mohamad, A., Qubaisy, H., Mahmoud, A. (2018). Risk Factors for Diarrhea in Children under Five Years of Age Attending El Amal Maternal and Child Health in Quasar City: A Cross-sectional study. EKB Journal Management System, 1(1), 36-45. doi: 10.21608/svuijm.2018.120563
Ahmed M. M. Hany; Abdelnser S. H. Mohamad; Heba M. Qubaisy; Amira A. Mahmoud. "Risk Factors for Diarrhea in Children under Five Years of Age Attending El Amal Maternal and Child Health in Quasar City: A Cross-sectional study". EKB Journal Management System, 1, 1, 2018, 36-45. doi: 10.21608/svuijm.2018.120563
Hany, A., Mohamad, A., Qubaisy, H., Mahmoud, A. (2018). 'Risk Factors for Diarrhea in Children under Five Years of Age Attending El Amal Maternal and Child Health in Quasar City: A Cross-sectional study', EKB Journal Management System, 1(1), pp. 36-45. doi: 10.21608/svuijm.2018.120563
Hany, A., Mohamad, A., Qubaisy, H., Mahmoud, A. Risk Factors for Diarrhea in Children under Five Years of Age Attending El Amal Maternal and Child Health in Quasar City: A Cross-sectional study. EKB Journal Management System, 2018; 1(1): 36-45. doi: 10.21608/svuijm.2018.120563

Risk Factors for Diarrhea in Children under Five Years of Age Attending El Amal Maternal and Child Health in Quasar City: A Cross-sectional study

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Article 8, Volume 1, Issue 1, July 2018, Page 36-45  XML PDF (161.72 K)
Document Type: Original research articles
DOI: 10.21608/svuijm.2018.120563
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Authors
Ahmed M. M. Hany1; Abdelnser S. H. Mohamad1; Heba M. Qubaisy2; Amira A. Mahmoud* 1
1Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
2Department of Pediatrics,Faculty of Medicine,South Valley University, Qena, Egypt
Abstract
Background: To date, there is a lack in the published literature that reported the risk
factors for diarrhea for under-five children in Egypt.
Objectives: we conducted the present cross-sectional study to investigate the role of a
number of possible risk factors for diarrhea among under-five children in Egypt.
Patients and methods: The present study was a cross-sectional study that carried out
from February 2017 to August 2017 at the pediatric outpatient clinics of El Amal
Maternal and Child Health in Quasar city.
Results and conclusion: A statistically significant higher proportion of patients who did
not exclusively breastfeed were more likely to have more than four episodes of diarrhea
per day(p =0.026). Similarly, diarrheal episodes more than four motions per day was
significantly more prevalent among children who consumed unstored cooked food (p < br />=0.1) or did not receive measles vaccine (p =0.04). Notably, children of mother who
knew the benefits of breastfeeding were less likely to suffer from diarrheal episodes (p < br /><0.001). However, diarrheal episodes per day did not have significant associations with
age (p =0.656), sibling number (p =0.645), number of rooms within the house (p= 0.145),
and number of people number living in the house (p =0.721).
Keywords
Diarrhea; Risk factors; vaccination; Cross-sectional
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