A Cross Sectional Overview of Relationship Between Diarrheal Disease Prevalence Among Children & Their Socio-demographic Status

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.