poster sri lanka (002)
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Is “Mothers’ self Reporting” as good as “community health
volunteers’ reported data” for childhood diarrhoea?
Childhood diarrhea remains a leading cause of morbidity and
mortality among under five children globally
Challenges in measuring childhood diarrhoea Periodicity of data collection Recall bias Logistical burden
484 households were followed by CHVs for 4 weeks to collect diarrheal data as defined by WHO.
In 245 households, mothers were trained to capture diarrheal episodes for four weeks in a predefined format
Data collection
January 18
th to February 15
th, 2016 in 10 villages in Sitarganj block, district Udham Singh
Nagar, Uttarakhand, India.
Conclusion The paired t tests for means was used to compare mean incidence and LP from both the sources using Microsoft
excel.
The results show that in CHV reported data, in 4 weeks’ time, out of 634 children followed, 95 diarrhea cases were
found with 271 diarrheal days.
In self-reporting data by mothers, out of 295 children followed, 51 diarrheal cases were found in 4 weeks’ time
with 109 diarrheal days.
The incidence and LP were 6.18 and 1.53 respectively in CHV reported data and 7.41and 1.33 in mothers reported
data respectively.
No statistically significant difference was found in incidence and LP calculated from CHV reported data set
and mothers reported data set.
Self-reporting of diarrheal data by mothers may be considered for measuring diarrheal diseases in programmatic
settings
- Farhad Ali, Abhik Dutta, Neeti Sharma, Arindam Ghatak, Mahendra Upadhyay, Santanu Chakraborty,