The Knowledge and Attitude about Diarrhea of Mothers of Students Attending an Elementary School in a Suburban Area in Istanbul


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Keskin N., Surmen A., Save D., Hıdıroğlu S., Karavuş M.

CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES, cilt.9, ss.232-235, 2019 (ESCI) identifier

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Objective: Diarrhea is one of the main cause of morbidity and mortality among children age under 5 years in Turkey though diarrheal disease control program has been performing and death ratio due to diarrheal disease under 5 years has been decreasing year by year in Turkey. This study is undertaken to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers about childhood diarrheal diseases in a suburban area.