South Vietnamese Rural Mothers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice in Child Health Care

Table 2

Child health care practices at home.

Variable	Number of interviewees; = 600	Percentage
Child care mainly by
Mother	466	77.7
Father	55	9.2
Grand parents	39	6.5
Others (uncle, aunt)	40	6.6
First place where a sick child was taken in order to get treatment
Health commune station	346	57.7
Private practice clinic	151	25.2
Provincial/district hospital	97	16.2
Quack doctor	6	1.0
Reason for choosing health commune station as first place to get treatment
Short distance	173	28.8
Familiar place	205	34.2
Free of charge for under 6 years old	136	22.7
Place for mothers to give birth
Health commune station	162	27.0
District hospital	193	32.2
General provincial hospital	220	36.7
Private practice clinics	9	1.5
Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA)	16	2.7
Breast feeding right after birth
30 minutes after birth	364	60.7
1 hour after birth	172	28.7
12 hours after birth	24	4.0
The following day	38	6.3
No breast feeding	2	0.3
Prevention of neonatal tetanus by vaccine against antitetanus (VAT) injection
Understanding clearly	568	94.7
Unknown	32	5.3