Assessment of the effectiveness of oral rehydration therapy against severe diarrheal dehydration.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
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1992 Sep; 23(3): 420-6
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-32089
ABSTRACT
A hospital based case-control study for assessing the effectiveness of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) preparation against severe dehydration due to diarrhea was conducted at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia. A total of 202 children aged 24 months or less who attending the hospital were suffering from acute watery diarrhea were recruited in the study. Those who were severely dehydrated as assessed by WHO criteria were accounted as cases; those who were non-severely dehydrated were accounted as controls. There were 59 cases and 143 controls. A questionnaire was used to interview all study subjects' mothers about ORT usage and various risk factors. Mothers who used ORT were asked to show how they prepared either oral rehydration solution (ORS) or sugar salt solution (SSS). Effectiveness of ORT against severe diarrheal dehydration was based on the formula for assessment of vaccine efficacy by using the odds ratio (OR). With the use of the logistic regression method, an adjusted OR was obtained after controlling various confounders. The effectiveness of ORT against severe diarrheal dehydration was 72.1% for proper ORT preparation and was decreased to 63.2% when ORT was improperly prepared.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Humans
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Case-Control Studies
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Chi-Square Distribution
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Likelihood Functions
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Acute Disease
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Regression Analysis
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Dehydration
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Diarrhea, Infantile
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Evaluation Studies as Topic
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Fluid Therapy
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Evaluation studies
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Observational study
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Risk factors
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
Year:
1992
Type:
Article
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