| Literature DB >> 2863551 |
A S Rahman, A Bari, A M Molla, W B Greenough.
Abstract
A feasibility study of rice-salt solution for oral rehydration (OR) was conducted in a village in the Chandpur area of rural Bangladesh in 1983. 305 mothers of children aged 0-4 years were interviewed with a pretraining questionnaire to find out about the availability of rice. The mothers were then trained and encouraged to use rice-salt OR solution to treat patients with diarrhoea. Evaluation of training was assessed by means of field diarrhoea surveillance, case follow-up, rice-salt OR solution sample analysis, and a post-training survey. The study showed that mothers in rural areas could prepare rice-salt OR solution quite easily and use it to treat diarrhoea patients. Mothers considered that this method would increase the utilisation of OR treatment in rural homes. After training rice-salt OR solution was the most common method of treatment for diarrhoea.Entities:
Keywords: Asia; Bangladesh; Biology; Delivery Of Health Care; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Diarrhea; Diseases; Education; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Gastrointestinal Effects; Health; Health Education; Health Services Administration; Management; Mothers; Oral Rehydration; Organization And Administration; Parents; Physiology; Population; Population Characteristics; Program Evaluation; Programs; Research Methodology; Rural Population; Sampling Studies; Southern Asia; Studies; Surveys; Training Activities; Training Programs; Treatment
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Year: 1985 PMID： 2863551 DOI： 10.1016/s0140-6736(85)90471-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lancet ISSN： 0140-6736 Impact factor: 79.321