Knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers (care givers) towards oral rehydration solution for diarrhea treatment among under five children at WKUSTH Gurage zone, south west, Ethiopia,

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abstract Background: Oral Rehydration solution is a type of fluid replacement that is used to prevent and treat dehydration particularly when it is caused by Diarrhea containing a little amount of sugar and salt particularly sodium and potassium.. The value of ORT in treating diarrhea and prevent it’s complication but still mortality rate from diarrheal disease is still high so this study to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices of mothers/caregivers was having under five children regarding oral rehydration therapy at Wolkite university specialized hospital (WKUSTH) Objective: the aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers (caregivers) regarding ORT utilization for under-five children with acute diarrheal disease in Gurage zone WKUSTH Method institutional based cross sectional study was used from may 10 June 5 2022 G.C systematic random sampling method was used to select 250 mothers that had under five children data was collect using pretested structured questioner by member of this study and the data was analyze by SPSS 2022 by using table and graph method. Result The study finding revealed that out of 250 caregivers 158(63.2%) had good knowledge about ORS utilization for acute watery diarrheal disease case management w. In other hand 138 (55.2%) of care givers had good practice on case management while, to manage the disease and 160(64%) were positive attitude Conclusion: The present study concludes that mothers had knowledge in the management of diarrhea. However, several gap existed between knowledge and practice of mothers in managing the disease. The high knowledge revealed in this study had influenced the practice of mothers in managing the disease. Thus, there was a need for public health educational intervention. Recommendation; based on our fending we was recommend different thing at different level