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- Title
Jedi jedi, a Yoruba cultural disease with implications for home management of diarrhoea.
- Authors
Brieger, William R.
- Abstract
The article presents findings of a survey-based study of jedi jedi, an ethnomedical condition, and its implications for home management of diarrhoea. Diarrhoea with dehydration is one of the leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Oral rehydration therapy using home-made salt sugar solution (SSS) has been found to be a life saving therapeutic measure. The survey took place in the rural community of Igbo-Ora in the Ibarapa Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria, where the population belongs primarily to the Yoruba ethnic group. Mothers of children with jedi jedi were taught to make the national formula for SSS. Home follow-up evaluation of 124 mothers showed not only better knowledge and skill but also greater use of SSS than a group of control mothers who had not attended the training session.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEA in children; TRADITIONAL medicine; ORAL rehydration therapy; IBARAPA (Nigerian people); YORUBA women
- Publication
Health Education Research, 1990, Vol 5, Issue 3, p337
- ISSN
0268-1153
- Publication type
Article