1. Is “Mothers’ self Reporting” as good as “community health
volunteers’ reported data” for childhood diarrhoea?
Childhood diarrhea remains a
leading cause of morbidity and
mortality among under five
children globally
Challenges in measuring childhood
diarrhoea
Periodicity of data collection
Recall bias
Logistical burden
484 households were followed by CHVs for 4
weeks to collect diarrheal data as defined
by WHO.
In 245 households, mothers were trained
to capture diarrheal episodes for four weeks in
a predefined format
Data collection
January 18th
to February 15th
, 2016 in 10 villages in Sitarganj block, district Udham Singh
Nagar, Uttarakhand, India.
Conclusion
The paired t tests for means was used to compare mean incidence and LP from both the sources using Microsoft
excel.
The results show that in CHV reported data, in 4 weeks’ time, out of 634 children followed, 95 diarrhea cases were
found with 271 diarrheal days.
In self-reporting data by mothers, out of 295 children followed, 51 diarrheal cases were found in 4 weeks’ time
with 109 diarrheal days.
The incidence and LP were 6.18 and 1.53 respectively in CHV reported data and 7.41and 1.33 in mothers reported
data respectively.
No statistically significant difference was found in incidence and LP calculated from CHV reported data set
and mothers reported data set.
Self-reporting of diarrheal data by mothers may be considered for measuring diarrheal diseases in programmatic
settings
- Farhad Ali, Abhik Dutta, Neeti Sharma, Arindam
Ghatak, Mahendra Upadhyay, Santanu Chakraborty,
