Abstract

This paper aimed to determine the prevalence of diarrhea and associated risk factors among children ‎under the age of five in Sinnar state. The primary data source is based on the information provided ‎through questionnaire for the 800 household interview method is the structured interview schedule ‎‎(questionnaire). The structured data collection tool will be pretested in the same study area where the ‎main data collection is to be performed. The pretest will be carried out in 8% (60 households) of the ‎total sample size of the study. The type of question in the interview schedule was based on the two ‎types of variables of the study, namely dependent (outcome) and independent (explanatory) variables. ‎SEF and predisposing causes of Diarrhea diseases among under five children were considered to be the ‎independent variables. These are divided into three categories: Endogenous, intermediate and ‎environmental. The main objective of this study is to enable the research methodology in the field of ‎infectious diseases to see and identify the characteristics of the so-called socially vocational and ‎economic factors associated with harmful diseases in children less than five years among the Sinnar ‎State. The study presented the analysis of survey data using both descriptive and chi-square The ‎frequencies procedure provides statistics and graphical displays that are useful for describing many ‎types of variables. Based on my findings, I recommend the following to avoid the risks of diarrhea: ‎Improving mother KAP of the disease, promoting environmental and home situations, Easy access to ‎safe drinking water and effective preservation methods, correct personal and family hygiene and more ‎fluids including oral re-hydration salts, and hygiene promotion programmers for the prevention of ‎childhood diarrhea. There is a need for effective measures to curtail the prevalence of diarrhea among ‎children by enhancing universal access to improved water sources, household hygiene technologies for ‎cooking, waste disposal and promoting proper hygiene behaviors through hygiene promotion. Finally.‎

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