Objective: to assess the knowledge, practice of prevention of hand-foot-mouth disease among women who have children under 5 years of age in Gia Xuyen commune, Gia Loc district, Haiduong province in 2013. Methods: a cross-sectional study using questionnaire was carried out among 404 women who were randomly selected among all women having children under 5 years of age. Results: 70 percent of women having a good knowledge of prevention of hand-food-mouth disease. The percentage of knowing the definition of disease is 75,74 percent; knowing about the symptom (48,8 percent); route of transmission (13,9 percent); population at risk of infection (73 percent); about how to care of infected children (30,7 percent); how to prevent transmission from infected to non-infected children (41,3 percent). The proportion of women having good practice of prevention of disease was 36.6 percent; of care of infected children (55,7 percent); of awareness when caring the infected children (30,9 percent); of preventing transmission (59,4 percent). Conclusion: The knowledge and practice of women with children under 5 years are still limited, communication and education interventions are needed to enhance the knowledge and practice in endemic communes.
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