Add to ORKGThis study was designed to determine the knowledge of mothers of under-five children of Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) and their child feeding/ drug use practices during diarrhea. This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 204 mothers of under-five years children in a community in Edo state, using researcher administered structured questionnaires. Data was analyzed using SPSS, with statistical significance set as < 0.05. One hundred and sixty (78.4%) mothers recognized the acronym ‘ORS’ out of which 17 (10.6%) knew the full meaning, 143 (83.3%) knew correctly that ORS provided energy during diarrhea, 128 (80.0%) knew it replaced lost fluids. Seventy-eight (38.2%) mothers acknowledged that children should be given more ...
Background: Diarrhea is one of the important causes of morbidity and mortality among under-five chil...
Background Diarrhoeal disease is a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in developing c...
Malnutrition continues to be a major public health problem in Nigeria, and this contributes substant...
Objective: This study was designed to examine mothers' knowledge, perceptions and practices of house...
A review of home management of childhood diarrhea in under-five children among 203 Nigerian mothers ...
Diarrhea and other diarrheal diseases such as cholera, pose great health problems and continue to be...
Back ground: Diarrhea is the most common pediatric disease. The vast majority of deaths from diarrhe...
Background: Diarrhea is a major threat to child survival due to its devastating complication of dehy...
Malnutrition continues to be a major public health problem in Nigeria, and this contributes substant...
Background: Diarrhea still continues to be a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality...
Background: Diarrhea remains one of the leading global causes of death among children under the age ...
Diarrhoea still remains one of the leading causes of U-5 morbidity and mortality especially in the d...
Background: - All children in the world suffer from diarrheal disease at some time in their life. Re...
Background: In Nigeria, diarrhea remains one of the leading causes of death among children under fiv...
Introduction: Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years ol...
Background: Diarrhea is one of the important causes of morbidity and mortality among under-five chil...
Background Diarrhoeal disease is a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in developing c...
Malnutrition continues to be a major public health problem in Nigeria, and this contributes substant...
Objective: This study was designed to examine mothers' knowledge, perceptions and practices of house...
A review of home management of childhood diarrhea in under-five children among 203 Nigerian mothers ...
Diarrhea and other diarrheal diseases such as cholera, pose great health problems and continue to be...
Back ground: Diarrhea is the most common pediatric disease. The vast majority of deaths from diarrhe...
Background: Diarrhea is a major threat to child survival due to its devastating complication of dehy...
Malnutrition continues to be a major public health problem in Nigeria, and this contributes substant...
Background: Diarrhea still continues to be a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality...
Background: Diarrhea remains one of the leading global causes of death among children under the age ...
Diarrhoea still remains one of the leading causes of U-5 morbidity and mortality especially in the d...
Background: - All children in the world suffer from diarrheal disease at some time in their life. Re...
Background: In Nigeria, diarrhea remains one of the leading causes of death among children under fiv...
Introduction: Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years ol...
Background: Diarrhea is one of the important causes of morbidity and mortality among under-five chil...
Background Diarrhoeal disease is a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in developing c...
Malnutrition continues to be a major public health problem in Nigeria, and this contributes substant...