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Survey Of Food-Hygiene Practices At Home And Childhood Diarrhoea In Hanoi, Vietnam, Kumiko Takanashi, Yuko Chonan, Dao Quyen, Nguyen Khan, Krishna Poudel, Masamine Jimba

Krishna C. Poudel

A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the potential factors of food-hygiene practices of mothers on the prevalence of diarrhoea among their children. Mothers who had children aged 6 months–5 years were recruited in a hamlet in Viet Nam. The food-hygiene practices included hand-washing, method of washing utensils, separation of utensils for raw and cooked food, and the location where foods were prepared for cooking. A face-to-face interview was conducted, and data on 206 mothers were analyzed. The risk of diarrhoea was significantly higher among children whose mothers prepared food for cooking somewhere other than the table (typically on the …