Incidence of acute respiratory infectionsamong malechildren

Aim: to determine the incidence of acute respiratory infections under five year's male children. study design: descriptive cross-sectional. place and duration of study: dera chahal,a semi urban area of lahore,january1stto 31st march 2015. methods: this was a descriptive cross sectional study conducted on 100 children of semi-urban area of lahore. purpose of this study was to identify incidence of acute respiratory infections among male children under the age of five years. questionnaire and field guide was used for data collection. interviews were taken from the mothers having children under the age of five years. data was entered in computer and analyzed by using software spss-version 22. results: this study exposed that incidence of acute respiratory infections was 31%. the male children under the age of five years involved in study selected by simple random sampling and were from similar socio economic situation. conclusion: the study established that acute respiratory infections cases were more in under five years' children sharing their bed room with 2 or more people,among all 60% of the children were aged between 12-59 months.