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Knowledge about prevention of water borne

Diseases among the rural community people.

ACN 3 (40111)
2nd year
First semester
MS Razia parveen
Fouzia Gill
Hafiza Sana Anwar

Arooj Fatima

Hafiza Nimra Jamil

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Knowledge about prevention of water borne

Diseases among the rural community people.
ABSTRACT:
Background: Poor sanitation and unhygienic water consumption leads huge burden of
waterborne illnesses such as diarrheal disease, cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A.
Approximately 88% of diarrheal diseases are attributed to unsafe water supply,
inadequate sanitation and hygiene. In Pakistan poor sanitary conditions and lack of
hygienic practices lead to 90% of children being infected with hepatitis A before
reaching 10 years of age.
 Objective:
 To assess the existing knowledge of the rural community people about the
water borne. diseases.
Methodology:
To achieve the objectives of the study descriptive survey design will be adopted.
About 110 adults will be chosen with age of (24 to 40) from a selected community of
Lahore, Ail Raza Abad. The tool will be consisted of socio demographic proforma and
structured knowledge questionnaire categorized into four domains: water and safe water,
water borne diseases, prevention of water borne diseases & water purification. Informed
consent will be obtained from the leaders of selected community followed by permission
from participants collected data will be analyzed by spss version 20 descriptive and
inferential statistics will be used.
Results: This stud will provide the average knowledge regarding water borne diseases
and its prevention to the residents of Ali Raza Abad community. Awareness will be
created by educating the community regarding to prevent water borne diseases and use
of safe drinking water. The burden of water borne diseases will be less on health
sectors. Awareness will be spread in people regarding prevention of water borne
diseases which can be done with community involvement.
Conclusion
In the present study it will be find that community people has average knowledge
regarding water borne diseases. Environmental condition also plays an important role in
spreading of water borne diseases. Hence, it is important to spread awareness in children
regarding prevention of water borne diseases which can be done with participation of community
thereby preventing diseases like diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis and worm infestation.