DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i05.031

Pages: 1843-1848

Recurrent urinary tract infections (UTI) are problems that are frequently encountered by paediatric healthcare providers. Over recent decades, the importance of UTI has been increasingly recognized and UTIs are considered as occult cause of febrile illness in young children. It was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in Dhaka Shishu Hospital during the period from May 2018 to August 2018. One Hundred and Three (103) samples size was selected by applying a purposive sampling technique. This study was conducted on recurrent cases only. Based on educational status of the respondents 6.80% had illiterate, 52.43% had primary level educated, 29.13% had secondary level educated, 9.71% higher secondary level educated and 1.94% had bachelor/post graduate degree. It is declared that based on main profession of the respondents, 24.27% was house wife, 16.50% was in agriculture, 17.48% was day labor, 21.36% was in business and 20.39% was service holder. Based on monthly family income of the respondents, large ratio (42.72%) of them was within 30001.00 to 60000.00 taka, second large ratio (35.92%) was within 60001.00 to 90000.00 taka, followed by 13.59% was within 30000.00 taka and 7.77% was above 90001.00 taka. The maximum, minimum and mean (±SD) income of the respondents were 110000.00 taka, 18000.00 taka and 58407.77 (±22276.532) taka. It is found that, 78% of respondents lived in nuclear family, 8.74% of respondents lived in joint family and 5.82% of respondents lived in extended family. Among them 100% respondents were married during the study period. According to knowledge on UTI among the respondents 73.79% parents knew about this disease where 26.21% parents did not know. Maximum duration of suffering from Urinary Truck Infection (UTI) was 10 days with a mean of 4.3 days and a standard deviation of 2.25 days. It is revealed that, awareness on Urinary Truck Infection (UTI) study population were distributed by 44.66% excellent knowledge, 29.13% good knowledge, 14.