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A Survey of Home Management of Childhood Febrile Illnesses in Rural Communities of Gwoza and Konduga Local Government Areas of Borno State , Nigeria
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Yahaya Omotara Nwaosu Sandabe |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Health Services are inaccessible to many children in Africa and many die from the high burden of malaria and febrile illnesses. However, WHO (2003) has encouraged treatment at home which was found to reduce the high level of morbidity and mortality when anti-malarial drugs in correct doses were used promptly on febrile children. Thus the aim of the study is to assess the home management of childhood febrile illnesses by care givers in some rural communities of Gwoza and Konduga Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Borno State. Between January 2006 and March 2006, four hundred questionnaires were distributed in Gwoza and Konduga LGAs each to care givers for study. The study revealed that mothers constitutes most of the care givers for children of under five years of age and the care givers were in the 20 to 29 age category with no formal education. Most of them (39.2 – 40.0 %) institute an intervention strategy immediately at the onset of fever. The most common strategy of alleviating fever was administration of drugs in both Gwoza (65.0 %) and in Konduga (79.0 %). Othet methods included tapid sponging, covering with cloth, and administration of traditional herbal drugs. The drug commonly used to address this health problem was chloroquine syrup (Gwoza, 52.8 %; Konduga, 65.0 %), followed by paracetamol syrup. The study thus showed that the majority of under 5 years patients with febrile illnesses are under the direct care of their parents whom were mostly adults with no formal education. Immediate administration of chloroquine syrup was the major health care approach to febrile illnesses in the under 5 patients within the study population. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://journals.abu.edu.ng/njps/pdf/65.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
