Abstract

We aimed to determine the water usage behavior and the incidence of diarrhea during the summer months (June, July, August 2003) in the people of Gölbaşı county in this study. The developed questionnaire form was used with the face-to-face interview technique on people aged 18 and over present at home during home visits on September 2003. Diarrhea was detected in 36.7 % of the 2100 households included in the study in the summer of 2003. The percentage of those living in the study area experiencing at least one bout of diarrhea was 12.2 %. The diarrhea episode rate was 21.0 %. Assumed that diarrhea related factors were water consumption amount, water invoice totality, existence water cessation during summer months, existence drinking water seperation from using water, existence purification fountain water before drinking. In the logistic regression model we developed for factors influencing diarrhea, existence water cessation during summer months was statistically significant (p

Key words: water consumption habitude, water cessation, diarrhea

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