1Community Health Nursing, Babylon Health Directorate-Iraq
2Department of Basic and Medical Science, College of Nursing, Babylon University, Babylon Province, Iraq
3Collage of Nursing, Babylon University-Iraq
4Community Health Nursing, Kut Technical Institute, Middle Technical University-Iraq
*Corresponding author: Nada Khazal Kadhim Hindi. Department of Basic and Medical Science, College of Nursing, Babylon University, Babylon Province, Iraq; E-mail: nadakhzal@yahoo.com
Online published on 6 April, 2019.
The body invades and proliferates living organisms and causes them to have their own symptoms. Infection may include several organisms at the same time and are called co-infection.
A descriptive analytic study design was conducted for the period of October 1st to January 2th 2018. In order to identify prevalence of septicemia in children under than five years. Data collected retrospectively by the used medical records as a statistic for each year of the (2014 to 2018), and analyzed through the descriptive statistic approach.
The study results reveals that (30.9%) a majority of septicemic children prevalence in the 2014 and the low proportion at the year of 2015.
A very large disparity between the years of prevalence that the more time progresses the less prevalence depending on health services. It is need to be conducted to involve a national level and assessed the associated factors with septicemic children.
Prevalence, Septicemia, Children
