Determinant Factors Of Womens Towards Modern Health Care Seeking Behavior For Childhood Diarrheal Disease In Hetosa District Arsi Zone

Background: Diarrheal disease remains one of the principal causes of morbidity and mortality inrnchildren of developing countries. One major reason for the poor outcomes of diarrheal episodes is thernmother’s treatment of diarrheal disease at her home and the kind of modern treatment she seeks.rnObjectives: To assess mothers’ modern health care seeking behavior and its determinants forrnchildhood diarrheal illnesses in Hetosa District,Arsi Zone, Oromia region.rnMethods: a comparative cross sectional study was conducted from December 2010-January 2011 inrnHetosa Woreda, Arsi zone, Oromia region. The study participants were 434 mothers/caretakers whornhad at least one under five years old child with diarrhea in the previous four weeks and selected fromrneight kebeles and one town. Data were collected using structured questionnaire and entered throughrnEpi enfo version 3.5.1 and analyzed by SPSS version 16. A distractive statistics, bivarate andrnmultivariate analysis was done using cross tabulation and binary logistic regressions.rnResults: the study revealed that residence, excretal disposal method, income, distance of health carernfacilities and educational status of the mothers or care takers were significantly associated withrnmother’s modern treatment seeking behavior. Mothers who live in urban were four and half timesrnsought modern treatment than rural dwellers, [OR(95%CI)=4.49(2.07, 9.7)].Mothers of those gradern9-12 were nine times more likely to seek modern treatment than illiteraternone[OR(95%CI)=8.88(1.15, 68.6)]. Those households used latrine and income greater than 500 perrnmonth were 4.6 and 3.3 times more likely to seek modern treatment than who use open field andrnearn less than 500 Ethiopian birr respectively,[OR(95%CI)=4.62(1.84,11.6)]andrn[OR(95%CI)=3.31(1.45, 7.54)]. Concerning the composition of fluid given, only 38.8% of thernmothers used oral rehydration therapy (ORT) (ORS and RHF) while the rest of them gave souprn(36.2%) and others (25.2%) such as plain water, tea, raw milk and traditional remedies which arerngenerally not as such helpful for the diarrheal child.rnConclusion: Majority of study mothers perceived that contaminated food is the major cause ofrnchildhood diarrhea. But there were mothers perception on childhood diarrhea those not treated byrnmodern treatment. Regarding Mothers seeking behavior of modern treatment mothers who live inrnurban was more likely seek modern treatment than rural dwellers.

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