Assessment of Poor Home Management Practice of Diarrhea and Associated Factors among Caregivers of Under-Five Years Children in Urban and Rural Residents of Doba Woreda, Ethiopia: Comparative Cross-Sectional Study

Table 2

Awareness on fluid intake among caregivers of under-five children’s in urban and rural resident of Doba woreda, Ethiopia.

Variables	Category	Urban(n=184)	Rural(n=375)	(n=559)
		No. (%)	No. (%)	No. (%)
Heard about ORS	Yes	184(100)	370(98.7)	554(99.1)
	No	0	5(1.3)	5(0.9)
Composition of ORS	Salt and sugar	111(60.3)	166(44.6)	277(49.6)
	Salt, sugar and mineral	53(28.8)	77(21.5)	130(23.9)
	Don’t know/don’t answer	20(10.9)	127(33.9)	147(26.5)
Amount of water used to dissolve ORS	0.5 liter	3(1.6)	15(4)	18(3.2)
	1 liter	172(93.5)	302(80.5)	474(84.8)
	2 liter and above	8(4.4)	36(9.6)	44(7.9)
	Don’t know/don’t answer	1(.5)	22(5.9)	23(4.1)
ORS available at home?	Yes	31(16.8)	43(11.5)	74(13.2)
	No	153(83.2)	332(88.5)	485(86.8)
Time to discard dissolved ORS	Until finished	6(3.3)	33(8.8)	39(7.0)
	<23Hours	29(15.8)	102(27.2)	131(23.5)
	At 24 hours	148(80.4)	188(50.1)	336(60.1)
	>25hours	0	11(2.9)	11(2.0)
	Don’t know/don’t answer	1(.5)	41(11)	42(7.5)
Had heard SSS	Yes	85(46.2)	88(23.5)	173(30.9)
	No	99(53.8)	287(76.5)	386(69.1)
Know how to prepare SSS	yes	61(33.2)	69(18.4)	130(23.3)
Prepared SSS previously	yes	34(18.5)	56(14.9)	90(16.1)
Withheld any type of fluid	Yes	48(26.1)	120(32.0)	168(30.1)
	No	136(73.9)	255(68.0)	391(69.9)

SSS “salt-sugar solution”, ORS “Oral rehydration salt”