| Summary: | 碩士 === 美和科技大學 === 健康照護研究所 === 102 === ABSTRACT
In Ho Chi Minh City, a metropolitan city in southern Vietnam, diarrhea is also a common disease. According to the national report of the Hospital of Tropical Diseases , children with diarrhea is increasing over the years. By the year of 2011, 7,366 cases children less than 5 years of age were diagnosed with acute diarrhea. Number of cases in 2012 was 9,550 and continually increases to 12,661 in 2013. It seems that caregiver’s knowledge and practice in prevention and caring for children with diarrhea at home is not well enough. It is shown that understanding of prevailing knowledge, attitude and practice will enable an effective health education. Therefore, this study focused on mothers as a main source of caring children at home and investigated their knowledge, attitude and practice in taking care of their child with diarrhea. Findings from this study will provide a good basis for health education implementation to improve mothers’ caring for the children with diarrhea. The successful education is expected to reduce the etiology of diarrhea disease, hospitalisation rate of severe cases, work load for healthcare professional and treatment costs.
The general purpose of this research aimed to investigate knowledge, attitude and practices among mothers of children less than five years of age diagnosed with diarrhea at the Hospital of Tropical Diseases.
This study used cross-sectional design to determine the percentage, prevalence, distribution and interrelations of variables within the population as suggested by Polit and Beck (2010).
Samples in this study were 100 mothers.
At Pediatric unit in Tropical Diseases Hospital, time: start collecting sample from 2/2014 to 4/2014.
The study results showed that the rate of mothers had correct knowledge about treatment children with diarrhea were 18%, the rate of mothers who had the right attitude about child diarrhea treatment was 77% and the rate of mothers correct practice for children drinking and mix Oresol is 88%.
Recommendation for further research:
Through these findings, I found that the correct knowledge, attitudes and practices of mothers about treatment of acute diarrhea for children is still low. So I have some recommendations:
- Need to strengthen health education programs, especially in rural areas.
- Apply education with many different forms, attention to the mass media: television, newspapers and radio.
- Enhance the role of health personnel; periodically organize health education and propaganda, detailed explanation about the treatment, care and prevention of diarrhea.
- Develop health education programs by picture to treatment and care of diarrhea for illiterate subjects.
- When teaching should provide more education and skills health education for nursing students and highlight the lack of knowledge, practical skills of mothers in child care diarrhea.
Keywords: Diarrhea knowledge, diarrhea practice, attitude toward
diarrhea, Vietnam.
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