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. 2022 Aug 3;19(15):9537.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19159537.

Caregivers' Compliance and Perception of Daycare Centers-A Community-Based Childhood Drowning Prevention Intervention Implemented in Rural Bangladesh

Lamisa Ashraf  1 , Priyanka Agrawal  1 , Aminur Rahman  2 , Md Al Amin Bhuiyan  2 , Shumona Sharmin Salam  3 , Qingfeng Li  1 , Abdulgafoor M Bachani  1
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Caregivers' Compliance and Perception of Daycare Centers-A Community-Based Childhood Drowning Prevention Intervention Implemented in Rural Bangladesh

Lamisa Ashraf et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Drowning was one of the most prevalent causes of death worldwide for children under five in 2020. Drowning was the second leading cause of death for children under five in Bangladesh, while 58% of all deaths in the 1-5 years old age group resulted from drowning. Adult supervision helps prevent child drowning in rural areas where water bodies are easily accessible and located very close to homes. This paper aims to assess caregivers' compliance and perception of community daycare centers in rural Bangladesh, piloted as a child drowning prevention intervention. In this longitudinal study, each child enrolled in the daycare intervention was visited and data on compliance and satisfaction with the daycare were collected. Descriptive statistics on daycare attendance, patterns of supervision, and caregivers' perceptions about daycare were reported. When inquired about daycare attendance (n = 226,552), a total of 77.4% of children (n = 175,321) were found to attend daycare. The distance from homes and an adult's unavailability to take the child to daycare were the most common reasons for not attending or discontinuing enrollment. The majority of children (76.4%) were supervised by their mothers during daycare closures. A total of 67.7% of respondents perceived daycare to be a safe place, where children also developed cognitive (51.7%) and social skills (50.6%). There were no incidences of drowning among children while attending daycare. Rural families were found to be compliant with the daycare and professed it to be a safe place protecting children from drowning and other injuries, while allowing them to focus on household chores or income-generating activities. These findings indicate a potential for the expansion of this intervention in rural Bangladesh and similar settings.

Keywords: Bangladesh; children; compliance; daycare centers; drowning; low-and middle-income countries.

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The authors declare no competing interests directly or indirectly related to the subject of this article.

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