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Primary Caregivers Health Seeking Behaviour for Under-Five Children: A Study in a Rural Block of Assam, India

机译:五岁以下儿童的主要看护者健康寻求行为:印度阿萨姆邦农村地区的一项研究

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"Introduction: Proper health seeking behaviour of primary caregivers can reduce delay in diagnosis of illness of young children, improve treatment compliance, improve the health, reduce child mortality and morbidity. The present study was conducted with the objectives to study the prevailing health seeking behaviours of care givers for the under five children. Methodology: Total 375 primary caregivers of under 5 children were included in our study. Each caregiver was interviewed after taking informed consent using pretested predesigned semi struc-tured schedule. Results: Out of 283 episodes in 31% cases the caregiver approach govt hospital while 23.7% went to private clinics, 17% practiced self medication for the child. 16% primary caregivers sought no outside advice and 5% went to traditional healers. Lack of money was cited by 75% caregivers as the reason for not getting outside treatment while 84% caregivers felt that the morbidity episode of the child was not sever enough to seek care. Conclusion: The study findings includes government sector is still the preferred choice for rural population for treatment for their children, self medication practices were forced on children by some caregivers, education of the caregivers significantly influenced care seeking behaviour, lack of money and caregivers’ perception of mild illness were some reasons for not seeking appropriate care.".
机译:“简介:基层照顾者的适当寻求健康行为可以减少幼儿疾病的诊断延迟,提高治疗依从性,改善健康状况,降低儿童死亡率和发病率。本研究的目的是研究普遍的寻求健康行为方法:将5名以下儿童的375名主要护理人员纳入本研究;在获得知情同意后,使用预先测试的预先设计的半结构化时间表对每名护理人员进行访谈结果:31名患者中有283次发作%的护理人员前往政府医院,而23.7%的患者去私人诊所,17%的孩子为自己进行自我药物治疗; 16%的初级护理人员没有寻求外部建议,5%的患者向传统治疗师求助; 75%的护理人员认为缺少钱是因为84%的护理人员认为孩子的发病率不足以寻求帮助而没有接受外部治疗的原因是。结论:研究结果包括政府部门仍然是农村人口对其孩子进行治疗的首选,一些照顾者对儿童进行自我药物治疗,对照顾者的教育极大地影响了寻求治疗的行为,缺乏钱和照顾者的感知轻度疾病是不寻求适当护理的一些原因。”

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