Diarréia aguda: avaliação dos sinais de alarme na estratégia da atenção integrada às doenças prevalentes na infância

Abstract

The integrated of childhood illness, consist to reduce the mortality and the morbidity of the children through a kind of adaptation which would improve the health system, the health workers, and the family education that would provide knowtedge to the mothers to be able to detect the symptoms of the acute diarrhea. With the purpose of evaluate the knowledge of the mothers or responsibles about the signs of the acute diarrhea were collected information from 174 mothers or responsibles for children under 5 years old which were infected by acute diarrhea, at the Cosme e Damião Infatile Hospital, located at Porto Velho - Rondônia, during the months of march and may 2001, against the AIDPI standard form. The results showed that 64.36% of the mothers could not detect the symptoms of the disease, 59.20% of the mothers didn't feed the children appropriately during the diarrhea period, 92% of the mothers had the knowledge of giving the children much liquids as the acute diarrhea developed. Considering the good results that were collected at this present study, the method of the AIDPI standard form were approved.