Environmental Factors and Childhood Fever in Areas of the Ouagadougou Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Burkina Faso

Djourdebbé, Franklin Bouba; Santos, Stéphanie Dos; Legrand, Thomas; Soura, Abdramane

doi:10.1017/s0021932014000479

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“…We noted a statistically significant decrease in the prevalence of self-reported fever between 2013 and 2017. Our finding is higher than previous studies conducted in Burkina Faso [16,33,39,40]. This may be due to the fourweek reference period chosen to collect the data for this study as compared to the two-week reference period of other studies.…”

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Factors associated with mothers’ health care-seeking behaviours for childhood fever in Burkina Faso: findings from repeated cross-sectional household surveys

Brenner

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Hien

et al. 2022

glob health res policy

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Introduction Fever is one of the most frequent reasons for paediatric consultations in Burkina Faso, but health care-seeking behaviours and the factors associated with health care-seeking in the event of childhood fever are poorly documented. This study aims to analyse the health care-seeking behaviours and the factors associated with health care-seeking for childhood fever in Burkina Faso. Methods This study used the data from the baseline and endline surveys conducted to evaluate the impact of the Performance-Based Financing program in Burkina Faso. Univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression analyses were used to identify the factors associated with appropriate healthcare-seeking for childhood fever. Odds ratios were estimated to assess the strength of associations and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used for significance tests. Data were cleaned, coded and analysed using Stata software version 16.1. Results Among the children under five who had a fever, 75.19% and 79.76% sought appropriate health care in 2013 and 2017, respectively. Being 24–59 months old (AOR: 0.344, 95% CI 0.182–0.649 in 2013 and AOR: 0. 208, 95% CI 0.115–0.376 in 2017), living in a very wealthy household (AOR: 2.014, 95% CI 1.149–3.531 in 2013 and AOR: 2.165, 95% CI 1.223–3.834 in 2017), having a mother with a secondary or higher level of education or having made at least four antenatal care visits were significantly associated with seeking appropriate health care for childhood fever. Living in an area where the health facility is safe was also significantly associated with seeking appropriate care for childhood fevers. Conclusions The findings underscore the need to concentrate efforts aiming at sensitizing the population (especially women of childbearing age) to improve sanitation and the use of family planning (household composition), skilled antenatal care and postnatal care to help reduce the prevalence of fever in children under five and improve the use of medical healthcare for childhood fever.

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Factors associated with mothers’ health care-seeking behaviours for childhood fever in Burkina Faso: findings from repeated cross-sectional household surveys

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et al. 2022

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“…This may be explained by the PBF and interventions in the eld of malaria. Our nding is higher than previous studies conducted in Burkina Faso [12,29,35,36]. This may be due to the four-week reference period chosen to collect the data for this study as compared to the two-week reference period of other studies.,…”

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confidence: 54%

Factors associated with mothers’ health care-seeking behaviours for childhood fever in Burkina Faso: Findings from repeated cross-sectional household surveys

Brenner

Bado

Hien

et al. 2021

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IntroductionFever is one of the most frequent reasons for paediatric consultations in Burkina Faso, but health care-seeking behaviours and the factors associated with health care-seeking in the event of childhood fever are poorly documented. This study aims to help fill this gap.MethodsThis study used the data from the baseline and endline surveys conducted to evaluate the impact of the Performance-Based Financing (PBF) program in Burkina Faso. Univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression analyses were used to identify the factors associated with appropriate healthcare-seeking for childhood fever. Odds ratios (ORs) were estimated to assess the strength of associations and used 95% confidence intervals for significance tests. Data were cleaned, coded and analysed using Stata software version 16.1.ResultsAmong the children under five who had a fever, 75.19% and 79.76 sought appropriate health care in 2013 and 2017, respectively. Being 24–59 months old (AOR: 0.344, 95% CI: 0.182–0.649 in 2013) and 79,2% (AOR: 0. 208, 95% CI: 0.115–0.376 in 2017), living in a very wealthy household households (AOR: 2.014, 95% CI: 1.149–3.531 in 2013 and AOR: 2.165, 95% CI: 1.223–3.834 in 2017), having a mother with a secondary or higher level of education or having made at least four antenatal care visits were significantly associated with seeking appropriate health care for childhood fever. Living in an area where the health facility is safe was also significantly associated with seeking appropriate care for childhood fevers.ConclusionThe findings underscore the need for interventions that would improve appropriate health care-seeking among mothers for their children. These interventions could include mothers’ sensitization to the benefits of modern health care use, increasing women’s education, improving household wealth status, improving the level of prenatal and postnatal care use and improving health care quality and safety in health facilities.

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“…Children whose mothers obtain water from improved source are less prone to morbidity compared to children whose mothers obtain water from non-improved source. Getting water from non-improved source increases the risk of contamination which eventually exposes children who consume such water to water-borne diseases [36][37][38][39][40].…”

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Correlates of childhood morbidity in Nigeria: Evidence from ordinal analysis of cross-sectional data

Adedokun

2020

PLoS ONE

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Background Child mortality records show that 1 in every 13 children dies before age five in sub-Saharan Africa with diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria considered to be the leading causes of such deaths. In Nigeria where 50% of all under-five deaths are attributed to morbidity, much attention has been directed to single health conditions. This study aims at examining the factors that are associated with single health conditions and comorbidity among children in Nigeria. Materials and methods This study was based on data from 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) which involved 27,571 under-five children who suffered from acute respiratory infection, diarrhoea or fever within two weeks of data collection exercise. Descriptive statistics and generalized ordinal logistic regression model were used for the analysis. Results About 14% of children suffered from a single health condition and 9% suffered from comorbidity. The likelihood of suffering from a single health condition and comorbidity is higher for children who are of third order birth or more (OR = 1.24, 95% CI = 1.11-1.39 & OR = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.12-1.55) compared to those who are of first order birth. The likelihood also increased for children whose mothers live in Northeast (OR = 3.19, 95% CI = 2.86-3.55 & OR = 3.88, 95% CI = 3.30-4.57) compared to children whose mothers live in North Central. The odds of suffering from a single health condition and comorbidity reduced for children who are from richest households, aged 3 years and above and were of average size at birth. Children of women who obtained water from improved source are less likely to experience any morbidity (OR = 0.93, 95% CI = 0.87-0.99) compared to children whose mothers obtained water from non-improved source.

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Environmental Factors and Childhood Fever in Areas of the Ouagadougou Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Burkina Faso

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Factors associated with mothers’ health care-seeking behaviours for childhood fever in Burkina Faso: findings from repeated cross-sectional household surveys

Factors associated with mothers’ health care-seeking behaviours for childhood fever in Burkina Faso: findings from repeated cross-sectional household surveys

Factors associated with mothers’ health care-seeking behaviours for childhood fever in Burkina Faso: Findings from repeated cross-sectional household surveys

Correlates of childhood morbidity in Nigeria: Evidence from ordinal analysis of cross-sectional data

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