Conocimientos y prácticas maternas para prevenir la deshidratación en los niños con E.D.A. del Centro de Salud No 1 Pumapungo, Cuenca 2013

Abstract

Background: The topic Maternal Knowledge and practices to prevent dehydration in children with EDA of the Health Center No.1 Pumapungo pretends to determine the practical steps and actions that mothers take to prevent dehydration in children under 5 years.

Aim: This investigation allows determining about the knowledge and maternal practice to prevent dehydration in children with EDA of the Health Center No.1 Pumapungo Cuenca 2013.

Material and Method: This is a transversal cross descriptive study. The universe consisted of 984 mothers and we worked with a sampling frame of 110 mothers with their children attended in the outpatient Health Center No. 1 in the period of March, April, May 2013. Techniques such as direct observation and surveys were used, and as instruments whose information was processed using descriptive statistics in SPPS programs, Excel, Microsoft Word and are presented in 2x2 tables.

Results: the 98,2% of mothers who live in the urban area. The 70% of mothers don’t have income. The 70.9% of mothers know the correct way to prepare SRO. The 74.5% of mothers medicate their children who present diarrhea.

Conclusions: according to our investigation we conclude that 47.3% of mothers have a low level of knowledge about diarrhea and 29.1% don’t know the way to preparation of ORS.

KEY WORDS: KNOWLEDGE, HEALTH ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES, MOTHERS, NUMERIC DATA AND STATISTICS, DIARRHEA, INFANT PREVENTION AND CONTROL, DEHYDRATION- PREVENTION AND CONTROL, HEALTH CENTER, CUENCA- ECUADOR