Prevalence of Pneumonia among Under Five Children Attended at Sengerema Council Designated Hospital (SCDH), A Comparative Study Before and During Covid-19 Period. (Record no. 22947)

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Source Phone: +255 28 298 3384
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Source Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz
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Personal name Domician Pelagia
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Title Prevalence of Pneumonia among Under Five Children Attended at Sengerema Council Designated Hospital (SCDH), A Comparative Study Before and During Covid-19 Period.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Mwanza, Tanzania:
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Extent 44 Pages
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Summary, etc. Abstract:<br/><br/>Background: the global estimate done in the year 2000, shows approximately156 million cases of pneumonia in under five years children occurred each year. In East Africa, one of the studies done in Ethiopia to look for the prevalence and risk factors of pneumonia in under five years children in various parts of East Africa were found to be 64.3% in Ethiopia, 32.72% in Uganda, 29.71% in Sudan, 29% in Eretria and 22% in Tanzania. The risk factors obtained includes, malnutrition, in door cooking with fire wood, inadequacy breast feeding and lack of pneumonia vaccine. COVID-19 which started in December 2019 has caused some effect in health sector where by, studies done in China and Japan shows that there were some changes occurred during pandemic period like, decreased health service utilization among peoples with less severe illness and this cause health service provision to decrease during pandemic period as compared to pre pandemic. <br/><br/>Objective: to determine the prevalence of pneumonia in under five years children attended at SCDH before and during COVID-19 pandemic as a cooperative study and also to find out the risk factors associated with pneumonia in under five children.<br/><br/>Results: the study shows the prevalence of pneumonia before Covid-19 to be higher by 57% as compared to the prevalence of 48.75% during Covid-19 period and common risk factors were malnutrition, lack of pneumonia vaccine, inadequacy breast feeding, underweight, indoor cooking with fire wood and previous exposure to RTI.<br/><br/>Conclusion: the prevalence of pneumonia in under five was found to be low during pandemic period as compared to pre pandemic period, this can be due to preventive measures taken during Covid-19 pandemic but the risk factors were found to be common and same in both periods.<br/> <br/>
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General subdivision Pediatrics and Child Health
General subdivision Pathology
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