Abstract:
The passage of three or more loose or watery stools per day is considered diarrhea. Diarrhea is
the second leading cause of illness and mortality (about 23 percent of total among children
below 5 year old in the south-east region of Asia are occurred due to diarrhea). Every year, it
causes 1.7 million morbidity and 0.76 million deaths in children. The influence of pediatric
diarrhea on socioeconomic position has been observed to be inversely connected, with children
in poverty being more susceptible to acute diarrheal episodes. According to a Bangladesh
demographic and health study, 65 children died every 1000 live births in 2007 and 45 children
died every 1000 children in 2017, indicating a decrease in the death rate from 6.5 percent to 4.5
percent. The prevalence of diarrheal disorders varied significantly among geographical regions,
ranging from 2.7 percent in Rangpur division to 6.5 percent in Barisal, 6.7% in Chittagong 6.1%
in Sylhet & 6.5 percent in Dhaka.
This study's research uses a mixed-methods strategy to collect both qualitative & quantitative
data. The study population will be children (both boy and girl) aged 1 to 6 years old who live in
non-slums & slums of Chattagram city. Our goal is to use random sampling to identify the link
between one thing (an independent variable) and another (a dependent variable) within the target
population. The data will be collected using a semi-structured questionnaire, and then doublechecked, error-checked, and entered into the database using IBM SPSS 22.
According to UNESCO, Bangladesh's female literacy rate was 71.9 percent in 2019. In this study
location, the female literacy rate was 90 % of the total 182 participants. 45.7 % of Bangladeshi
children experienced at least 1 episode of sickness in the two weeks preceding up to the survey,
with 69.2 percent of the children affected with diarrhea in less than the past 5 months of the
investigation. This study discovered a weakly significant connection (P-value0.041) between the
method used to purify drinking water and the most recent diarrheal infection. Diarrheal
morbidity affects children under the age of 5 3.2 times per year worldwide, however this study
indicated that diarrhea affects children 2.25 times per year on average in Chattagram city. Along
with the mother's educational background and occupation, evidence of family income,
participant's home, toilet usage, and water purification methods were found to be factors in the
occurrence of diarrhea among children in this study location.
