Study on risk factors of persistent diarrhoeal disease in infants below 3 years of age, Southern region of VietNam
- Author:
Tien Thi Kim Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Diarrhea
- MeSH:
risk factors;
diarrhea;
Infant
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2002;12(1):19-23
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A case-control study (140 cases with persistent diarrhoeal diagnosis and 164 controls) was carried out at the Children Hospital No1 HoChiMinh City, VietNam. All the subjects were interviewed examined and all the information were recorded in a questionaire from Epi-Info was used for the univariable analysis and Egret for multiple logistic regression, 37 factors were studied but only 6 factors were found to be associated significantly with persistent diarrhea (4 risk factors: young infants, use of antibiotic for more than 5 days, no feeding during illness, consumption of water from well; 2 protective factors: breast-feeding, consumption of vegetable oil.
