Effectiveness of WHO Combination Treatment Regimen in The Management of Diarrhoea Among Under-Five Children Attending Primary Health Care Centres in Oyo State, Nigeria

Diarrhoea is one of the childhood diseases that result to high mortality. Despite World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation combination treatment regimen oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc supplements for management this disease, it effectiveness in treating preventing reoccurrence diarrhoea among under-five children remains a serious concern. Therefore, main objective study was assess WHO amongst attending Primary Care (PHC) centres Oyo State. The adopted quasi-experimental group Pretest-posttest design. Purposive sampling technique used recruit total 60 eligible participants on admission. assessed based recovery rate at 24 hours, 2 weeks 4 post intervention using standardized instrument observational check-list assessing diarrhoeaic children. Data analysis done both descriptive inferential statistics. However, admission (baseline), majority 52(86.7%) had moderate diarrhoea. After administering WHO-ORS plus Zinc supplements, hours later, 51(85.0%) no diarrhoea, two (2) during home visiting, 56(93.3%) Four (4) weeks, significant improvement also achieved as 57(95.0%) It concluded status an indication suggest how highly efficacious Hence, workers PHC should combine therapy not only