scholarly journals Primacy of effective communication and its influence on adherence to artemether-lumefantrine treatment for children under five years of age: a qualitative study

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daudi O Simba ◽  
Deodatus Kakoko
Author(s):  
Elsa Rodríguez-Angulo ◽  
Laura Aguilar-Franco ◽  
Ricardo Ojeda-Rodríguez ◽  
Guadalupe Andueza-Pech

Community perceptions and practices towards the disease are mainly influenced by traditional medicine. The intercultural perspective in health allows building symmetrical relationships between medical and traditional knowledge. One of the most vulnerable group is under five years age. Exploring the perceptions and practices of mothers and caregivers on the disease and care of children can guide towards better health practices. Objective. Describe the perceptions and practices of mothers about the main health problems of their children during an emergency. Methodology. Quantitative-qualitative study, participatory action-research type with an intercultural perspective. Question guide was prepared for the exchange of knowledge with the focus group technique. Through inductive analysis of the transcripts, themes emerged. Results. Thirty-one mothers and caregivers attended the workshops. There were 48.6% emergencies due to diarrhea, fever and accidents. Home remedies, lack of hygiene in homes and lack of doctors on weekends were noted. Conclusions. Emergencies in children occured in almost half of the morbidity cases in the community studied. A new regionalization is necessary to reduce health gaps for children under five years of age.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Ade Kartikasari Sebba ◽  
Baning Rahayujati ◽  
Isa Dharmawidjaja

Pneumonia is one of the deadliest diseases for children under five years-old throughout the world. In Indonesia, pneumonia is the second deadliest disease after diarrhea. In 2015-2016, the Coverage of pneumonia case detection on children under five years-old increased from 22.33% to 36.06% but it had not achieved the detection target (-85%). A program evaluation needs to conduct, consequently. The evaluation aims to observe the implementation of pneumonia investigation program on children under five years-old in Sleman in 2016. The evaluation used a descriptive design performed in June-July 2017. The research subject was the program of Upper Respiratory Infection (ISPA, Infeksi Saluran Pernapasan Akut) implemented in community health centers (puskesmas, pusat kesehatan masyarakat). Twenty respondents as the sample were chosen by using the purposive sampling technique. The surveillance evaluation employed the input, activities, and output. The instruments were structural questionnaires and checklist sheets. The analysis result was presented in forms of tabulation and narration. From the input facet, 100% respondents have not had any special trainings related to pneumonia. 55% respondents have interlocking jobs with the longest service time of three years or more (75%). 70% respondents are able to show ARI Soundtimer. There are only 10% respondents holding the media of communication, information, and education (KIE, Komunikasi, Informasi, dan Edukasi) in forms of flipchart and leaflet; while 100% respondents admit that they have no stamp seal of URI. The proses facet displays that 100% respondents do not arrange any plan. The case investigation is only passive (100%). 80% respondents do socialization of case management and only 15% respondents perform a home visit. 100% respondents have not held trainings for responsible people, alert villages, and private midwives. From the output facet, the scope of case investigation is still low (36.06%).The implementation of pneumonia case investigation program on children under five years-old has been well executed but there are still weaknesses. Hence, public health offices (dinas kesehatan) should improve their human resources by arran ging a training program, equalize the use of breath counting tool and make MoU with all health services to report pneumonia cases. Community health centers are recommended to arrange plans, actively attempt to discover pneumonia cases, and train the responsible people, centers for pre-and postnatal health care (posyandu, pos pelayanan terpadu), or midwives related to the subject of pneumonia.


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