Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Vol. 14 No. 3 (2020): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Assessment of Mother’s Practice among Using Oral Rehydration Solution for their Children with Diarrhea in Babylon City

Abdulmahdi A. Hasan (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jul 2020

Abstract

Objectives: A descriptive study that aimed to find out demographic characteristics of mothers like age , level of education , occupation and resident area, to find out demographic characteristics of child regarding age , sex and birth order of the child and kind of feeding breast feeding and to assess the mother practices among using oral rehydration solution. Methodology: The study was carried out at Child and Maternal Babylon Hospital, study period extended from December(2016) to end of the February(2017). Anon-probability sample was selected from Child and Maternal Babylon Hospital and al-Hashemia Hospital, the sample consisted (100) mothers. Results : showed that (64% ) of mothers their age between ( 20-30 ) years . also results reveal that ( 56% ) of mothers graduate from primary school ,and show that ( 93% ) of mothers were unemployed.

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