Knowledge Attitudes, and Practices of Parents on Acute Respiratory Tract Infection in Children Under Five Years: A Cross Section Study

Abstract

To assess the parent’s knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding childhood acute respiratory Acute respiratory infection is an infection that may interfere with normal breathing. Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are a major cause of pediatric mortality and morbidity, particularly when associated with delays in treatment Control of acute respiratory infections (ARI) is a major public health problem in developing countries. A descriptive cross-sectional survey study design was used in which 150 parents were selected for the study through simple random sampling technique and the sample size was calculated by Rao soft with confidence interval and margin of error. In this study total 150 participants were included in which there were 36 males and 64 females. There were more than half of the participants had poor knowledge related to ARIs. The majority participants had negative attitude toward consulting a physician. This study result shows that half of the participants had poor knowledge and rest had good knowledge regarding childhood acute respiratory infections. Most of the participants had negative attitude towards the consulting a physician