| Titre : | Children and medicines : self-treatment of common illnesses among Luo schoolchildren in western Kenya. (2000) |
| Auteurs : | P.W. GEISSLER ; J. Aagaard-Hansen ; R. ACHIENG' ODHIAMBO ; K. NOKES ; J.H. OUMA ; R.J. PRINCE ; Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory. Charlottenlund. DNK ; Partnership for Child Development. University of Oxford. Oxford. GBR |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 50, n° 12, 2000) |
| Pagination : | 1771-1783 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Pathologie ; Comportement ; Automédication ; Médicament ; Médecine traditionnelle ; Evaluation ; Soins ; Thérapeutique ; Enfant ; Homme ; Enfant 6 9 ans ; Kenya ; Afrique |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST k8wBR0xG. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In a rural area of western Kenya, primary schoolchildren's health seeking behaviour in response to common illnesses was investigated. 57 primary schoolchildren (age 11-17 years, median 13 years) were interviewed weekly about their health status and health seeking activities for 30 weeks. The children each experienced on average 25 illness episodes during this period. Most episodes could be categorised into 4 groups : cold'headache'abdominal complaints'and injuries'One fifth (21%) of the illness episodes were serious enough to keep the children from school. In 28% of them, an adult was consulted, while 72% were not reported to an adult caretaker. Of the episodes without adult involvement, 81% remained untreated, while 19% were treated by the children themselves with either herbal or Western medicines. Of all the medicines taken by the children, two thirds were provided or facilitated by adults (assisted treatment) and one third taken by the children themselves without adult involvement (self-treatment). Among boys, the proportion of illnesses, which were self-treated increased with age from 12% in the youngest age group (<13 years) to 34% in the oldest (<14 years). In girls, the proportion of illnesses which were self-treated was consistently lower than among boys and remained constant around 9% for all age groups. (...) |
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