Educational intervention on acute diarrheal disease for parents with children aged 0-5 years

Abstract

Objective emerges: Establish an educational intervention to increase adequate knowledge in parents of children from 0 to 5 years old about acute diarrheal disease, from the Reynaldo Chang Vargas Polyclinic, Songo La Maya municipality, Cuba. period from March 2023 to September 2024. Method: The current investigation responds to a type of descriptive study and educational intervention, using the methods: observation, medical interview, group techniques, under the mixed research methodology. Universe constituted by 188 parents and a non-probabilistic sample using the simple random method, resulting in 82 parents. Results: The level of knowledge about acute diarrheal disease after the intervention rose to 84%, food and nutrition to 91%, breastfeeding to 89%, preventive measures to 87%, diarrhea due to infection to 83%, and use of rehydration salts to 87%. Conclusions: In the reviewed studies, there are different approaches to the form of health education. Better health policies are needed to maintain effective prevention strategies. The challenge now is to minimize social determinants and care for populations with risk factors. The educational intervention on knowledge of acute diarrheal disease in parents of children aged 0 to 5 years was effective, since the majority obtained an adequate evaluation in the test applied after the educational program.