Health seeking behavior among mothers of sick children in a community.
ABSTRACT: The descriptive research entitled "Health Seeking Behavior among Mothers of Sick Children in a community", was carried out in Lele VDC, ward no.7, Lalitpur. The objective of this study was to find out health seeking behavior among mothers of sick children. Non probability, purpo...
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| Summary: | ABSTRACT: The descriptive research entitled "Health Seeking Behavior among Mothers of Sick Children in a community", was carried out in Lele VDC, ward no.7, Lalitpur. The objective of this study was to find out health seeking behavior among mothers of sick children. Non probability, purposive sampling method was used. Sample size of the study was 102 mothers who had sick children from 0 to 59 months. The semi structured questionnaire was used to obtain the data, which was analyzed by using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Chi square and Fisher exact test). The study findings revealed that the mean age of the respondent was 25.8 years and child was 29 months. Respondents' children suffered with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malnutrition were 62.7%, 28%, 8.8% respectively. Majority (81.4%) mothers had sought treatment and among them 69% sought treatment from health facility. There is significant relationship between education (p=0.05), sex of the child (p=0.004), type of sickness of children (p=0.001) of the mother and health seeking behavior. However occupation of the mothers for seeking treatment (p=0.66) and treatment seeking at first (p=0.82) are not significant, so there is no relationship between occupation of the mothers and health seeking behavior. Regarding relationship between awareness on diarrhea, 79.3% had sought for treatment. More than 82% who had reported that they heard about pneumonia had sought treatment. Almost eighty nine percent mothers who were aware on malnutrition had sought treatment. This study shows that majority of the mothers sought treatment from health facility, yet around one fourth went at traditional healers. Education of the mother, sex of the child, sickness of child and mother's awareness are the factors affecting health seeking behavior of the mothers. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 53p. : |