Diarreia infantil: avaliação dos cuidados maternos na prevenção e tratamento / Childhood diarrhea: evaluation of maternal care in prevention and treatment
To identify the epidemiological-behavioral profile of mothers in relation to children's diarrhea, evaluating which are the determinants that the children are exposed to and verifying if the mothers know the forms of prevention and treatment of the disease.
Methodology:
it is a quantitative and descriptive study, based in questionnaires epidemiological and of evaluating of the self-efficacy of maternal care, applied to motherswho attended the two basic health units for childcare consultation.
The variables were favorable for episodes of diarrhea not so frequent in the two basic health units a prevalence of mothers with good knowledge and ability not to exposed children to the determinants that are possible to avoid was observed, concluding that they have a satisfactory maternal self-efficacy.