Prevalence of acute watery diarrhea in vulnerable children, mothers’ knowledge, and management: a cross-sectional study from Yemen
Mansour Abdu Al-Taj · 2026
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More than a third of young children in vulnerable Yemeni communities had acute watery diarrhea recently, Mansour Abdu Al-Taj reports in a 2026 cross-sectional study. Diarrhea still kills large numbers of small children, and what mothers know shapes how an episode ends.
Al-Taj interviewed 895 mothers from displaced and host communities face-to-face. The share of children with diarrhea was 36.4%, yet good knowledge of spread and prevention reached only 39.3% of mothers, and just 15.9% gave oral rehydration solution in the last episode. Older mothers and those with secondary schooling knew more, and knowledgeable mothers were nearly twice as likely to use the solution. The author calls for targeted teaching in these communities.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mansour Abdu Al-Taj |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26510 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |