Accounting for recent trends in the prevalence of diarrhoea in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): results from consecutive cross-sectional surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To analyse trends in diarrhoea prevalence by maternal education, access to clean water and improved sanitation, household wealth index; to identify the sources of variation and assess contribution of changes in socioeconomic characteristics in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Design

Consecutive cross-sectional surveys.

Setting

DRC.

Participants

The databases contain information on 9748 children from the 2001 Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey and 7987 children from the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey.

Interventions

N/A.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Whether the child had diarrhoea 14 days preceding the survey.

Results

The overall prevalence of diarrhoea decreased by 26 percent (from 22.1% in 2001 to 16.4% in 20

SUBMITTER: Emina JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3533063 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature