Care Seeking Patterns for Under Five Children in Urban Slum Udaipur: A Prospective Study
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Children of this group (pre-school) are not only vulnerable to death, but also to malnutrition, since they are largely dependent of caretakers for appropriate nutrition. This study is therefore being conducted to investigate care seeking patterns for sick young children in urban slums in Udaipur. Material & Methods: A Study was carried out in urban slums of Udaipur city. There were 32 slums clusters in the city. Each slum was visited. Families encountered with under five year children that had an illness episode in the last one month were interviewed. Subsequently six more similar families were selected by moving in a zig-zag manner, leading to total of six families per cluster (a total of 34X6=204). All the families were interviewed using a pretested questionnaire. Results: In our study showed that the 80% of the families had a family income less than 300 per capita per month, and 16% of mother had not received any formal education. In general, a provider was consulted more promptly for males than for females. Poorer families delay seeking care as compared to richer families, the difference was statistical significant. Conclusion: Hence imparting the recommendation in the health care package for the urban slums would help in improving the health status of the poor urban slum and would be enable us to decrease the morbidity & mortality in these children, which would subsequently help in our goal of health for all.
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Nilesh Gothi, Gorav Kumar, Aditi Gothi
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