knowledge and practices of caretakers towards management of pneumonia among children below 5 years in iganga hospital, iganga district

Description

Pneumonia accounts for 16% of children under 5 years killing 920136 children annually. The purpose of the study was to determine the knowledge and practices of caretakers towards management of pneumonia among infants blow five years. The study was carried out in Iganga hospital allocated in eastern Uganda and across sectional descriptive study design was employed, qualitative and quantitative data collection approach was used. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaires and interviews. Out of 30 respondents3(10%) were males and 27(90) were females, 22(73.3%) respondents had ever heard about pneumonia and 40% new that their children pneumonia also 26 (86.6%) respondents used local herbs when their child got pneumonia and only 4 (13.3%) said they don’t use local herbs. In conclusion the overall knowledge was average and practices were bad, this greatly calls for health interventions by health workers and the ministry of health so as to combat and change the poor practices on management of pneumonia among care takers.