PREVALENCE OF PNEUMONIA AMONG UNDER-FIVE YEARS CHILDREN BETWEEN 2020-2021 IN UNIVERSITY OF BENIN TEACHING HOSPITAL
Abstract
This study was carried out to know the prevalence of pneumonia among under-five years children in University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Uselu. This is a retrospective study based on review of previous study records from 2020 to 2021. There was no instrument for validity of the instrument. A sample size of one hundred and six (106) was used as this represented the number of children diagnosed of pneumonia from 2020 to 2021. Of the 106, 54 of the children diagnosed of pneumonia were less than a year old. This shows that children that are one year old and below have higher prevalence pneumonia among them than other children below five years old. Male children are more prone to developing pneumonia. Based on the findings from this study, male were 70 and females were 36. this shows that males were more affected with pneumonia than females from the year 2020 to 2021.
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