Mathias, Victor A.2024-08-092024-08-092024-06-30Victor Mathias and Asumin Mkalagale (2024) Environmental Factors Associated with Diarrhoea Among Under-Five Children Attending at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania J Clin Nur Rep 3(2), 01-07.https://mkscienceset.com/articles_file/338-_article1719557388.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1440Generally, diarrhoea is still a second major reason of death and illness in children below the age of five years. It holds breathes of around half a million under five children every year and causes million more to be admitted. Every year diarrhoea kills around 525000 children under five years. Globally there are nearly 1.7 billion cases of child- hood diarrhoea disease every year. Unfortunately, environmental factors associated with diarrhoea among under five children in Tanzania have not yet well addressed. Therefore, this study aimed to determine environmental factors associated with diarrhoea among under-five children attending at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), in Tanzania. A quantitative cross-sectional study design of 100 simple randomly selected participants was applied. Questionnaires were used to collect data from mothers/ carers with a child of under-five children suffering from diarrhoea admitted at MNH. Data were analysed using SPSS. Environmental risk factors associated with diarrhoea were determined with a p value of ≤ 0.05. Unsuitable infrastructure for grey water disposal, improper hand washing before feeding the baby and hand washing without using clean water and soap had strongly association with diarrhoea in under-five children attending at MNH with P-value of 0.001, 0.001, and 0.01 respectively. Identified risk factors for diarrhoea among under-five children call for the importance of providing health education to the caregivers on the causes, prevention, and treatment on the problem.enEnvironmental FactorsDiarrhoea, Muhimbili National HospitalTanzaniaArticle