Study on risk factors associated to the prolongation of diarrhoea in children under five years of age
- Author:
Tien Thi Kim Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Diarrhea
- MeSH:
diarrhea;
risk factors;
child
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2002;12(1):20-25
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
This study was applied for 1,729 children under 5 years of age selected randomly from Cai Be district, Tien Giang province by 30 cluster method. The overall incidence was 40.5 episodes/100 infants/years, it was highest for infants under 6 months of age (96 episodes/100 infants/years), followed by infants 6 to 11 months of age (84 episodes/100 infants/years). After 24 months of age, it decreased obviously. The duration of diarrhea: the majority of diarrhea episodes were short duration, 86% of episodes lasted from 1 to 4 days, only 0.5% lasted over 14 days. Risk factors associated to the prolongation of diarrhea were: infants under 1 year of age, liquid stool with defecation more than 5 times in 24 hour, bloody stool, using antibiotics more than 5 days, malnutrition and beginning of mixing feeding.
