Results
A total of 1140 mothers (52.1% of them are housewives) participated in
the study. About of 40.3 % of participating mothers believed that
childhood diarrhea is major problem in Saudi community; however, Almost
23% of the participants were unable to identify any critical sign of
sever diarrhea, and around 66% falsely stated that diarrhea is caused
by teething. Although of 62 % of our participating mothers knew about
the oral rehydration therapy (ORS), only 23.5 % of them used it for
their children.