|
Demographics
| | | |
|
Caregiver relationship to child
|
542
| | |
|
Mother
| |
493
|
(91.0)
|
|
Father
| |
38
|
(7.0)
|
|
Other relative
| |
11
|
(2.0)
|
|
Male child
|
550
|
302
|
(54.9)
|
|
Age of child (months)
|
524
|
12.6
|
(9.5)
|
|
Rural residence
|
458
|
81
|
(17.7)
|
|
SUMI†
|
313
|
266
|
(85.0)
|
|
Hospital (City)
|
536
| | |
|
Del Niño (La Paz)
| |
25
|
(4.7)
|
|
Materno-Infantil (La Paz)
| |
25
|
(4.7)
|
|
Boliviano Holandés (El Alto)
| |
61
|
(11.4)
|
|
Germán Urquidi (Cochabamba)
| |
75
|
(14.0)
|
|
Albina Patiño (Cochabamba)‡
| |
203
|
(37.9)
|
|
Mario Ortiz Suárez (Santa Cruz)
| |
147
|
(27.4)
|
|
Number of people in household
|
524
|
4.7
|
(2.4)
|
|
Average monthly household income (US$)
|
551
|
242.50
|
(200.00)
|
|
Dual-income household
|
477
|
145
|
(30.4)
|
|
Treatment-Seeking Behavior
| | | |
|
Sought treatment at least once previously to current visit
|
467
|
384
|
(82.2)
|
|
Number of transportations taken to current visit
|
428
|
1.3
|
(0.5)
|
|
Number of days child had diarrhea prior to current visit
|
513
|
4.9
|
(7.4)
|
|
Severity of illness
| | | |
|
Child was an outpatient
|
551
|
297
|
(53.9)
|
|
Child presented with at least one complication§
|
548
|
280
|
(51.1)
|
|
Child’s first episode of diarrhea in their life
|
466
|
164
|
(35.2)
|
