Prevalence and factors associated with the use of antibiotics in non-bloody diarrhoea in children under 5 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa
Archives of Diseases in Childhood May 24, 2019
Auta A, et al. - In children under 5 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), researchers estimated the prevalence and determined the factors correlated with the use of antibiotics in the management of non-bloody diarrhoea via conducting a meta-analysis of demographic and health survey data sets from 30 countries in SSA. In order to determine the factors associated with antibiotic use, Χ2 tests were used. Data reported that the pooled prevalence of antibiotic use among non-bloody diarrhoea cases in children under the age of 5 was 23.1%. Investigators found that the use of antibiotics was linked to the source of care, place of residence, wealth index, maternal education and breastfeeding status in children with non-bloody diarrhoea in SSA. In children under 5 years of age in SSA, unacceptably high use of antibiotics to treat episodes of non-blood diarrhoea was found.
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