Md. Shahab Uddin1, Md. Rashedul Haque2, Farhana Jaya Chowdhury3, Ruhul Amin4, K. M. Hafizur Rahman5
1. Associate Professor, Dept. of Paediatrics, Sylhet Women’s Medical College
2. Professor and Head, Dept. of Paediatrics, Sylhet Women’s Medical College
3. Associate Professor, Dept of Paediatrics, Sylhet Women’s Medical College
4. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Paediatrics, Sylhet Women’s Medical College
5. Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Sylhet Women’s Medical College
Abstract
Disease pattern varies with social, demographic and environmental factors. Seasonal variations play important role on occurrence of certain paediatric diseases. This study aimed to evaluate frequency of paediatric patients diseases types attended in outpatient paediatric department and their relation with seasonal variation. This descriptive cross-sectional study conducted from July 2024 to June 2025 in the Department of Paediatrics, Sylhet Women’s Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh. All entries of paediatric outpatient registrar book evaluated for this study. Patients came for follow-up and surgical indications were excluded from this study. Total 26,164 patients were analyzed in this study. Their mean age was 6.89±4.36 years and male predominance observed in this study (1.23:1). Infectious diseases were found more frequently (74.85%) that followed by disease of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary system (12.44%) and respiratory disease (6.14%), and other diseases comprised the rest 6.57% of total study population. Acute respiratory tract infection (p <= 0.001) bronchiolitis, bronchial asthma (p= <0.001), acute watery diarrhea (p <= 0.001) measles (p <= 0.001) mumps (p <= 0.001) and dengue fever (p <= 0.001) found to have (p <= 0.001) seasonal variation. Further large scale study in other Bangladesh is recommended to build a nation-wide database, which will guide to make an effective hospital policy.
Key words: Paediatric, Diseases, Frequency, Season, Variation