ASSESSMENT Of KNOWLEDGE AND .PRACTICE OF SCHOOL, AGE. CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM INTESTINAL PARASITIC INf'ECCTION AND THEIR MOTHERS

Abstract

Intestinal parasitic infection is a group of endemic communicable disease and constitute a major health problem in many countries specially the less developed one. Where they predispose to mal-nourishment and impairment of physical and mental fitness specially among school age children.

The aim of the present study was to assess knowledge and practice of infected school age children suffering from intestinal parasitic infections and their mothers.

The present study was carried out in an out patient pediatric clinic ofBenha University hospital.

A-purposive sample of one hundred school age children from both sexes under criteria of confirmed diagnosis by lab investigation for stool sample as intestinal parasitic infection and their accompanying mothers who attended to the above mentioned setting to seek medical advice.

A pre designed interviewing questionnaire sheet was designed by the researcher to gather related data from the study subjects, it contained the following items: I-a- Socio-demographic, characteristic about the children and their

mothers, it includes (name, age, sex, level of education and rank of child). I-b- Data about environmental characteristics and sanitary condition of

study sample.