The prevalence of morbidity pattern in children on emergency condition as seen in some hospitals in Nigeria motivated this work. The aim of this paper is to examine the prevalence of childhood diseases using statistical methods on a secondary data collected from Park Lane Hospital, Enugu State, Nigeria, for a period of five years from 2013 to 2017. In this study, we used Friedman Milton’s test and chi-square test which are both non-parametric tests to examine if the prevalence rate of the reported cases of various childhood diseases considered in this research are the same or not the same for the five years period of study and to determine if disease occurrence depends on the sex (gender) of the children. We examined six commonly reported childhood diseases at the above mentioned hospital and these diseases are diarrhea, measles, whooping cough, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis and tetanus. The result of the study shows that the numbers of reported cases of various childhood diseases considered in this research work are not the same for the period of study. Also, the types of disease suffered by these children are independent of their gender. Finally, diarrhea which is one of the diseases considered has the highest number of reported cases compared to all the diseases considered in this study so we advise mothers to boil and filter the water that their children drink and also encourage that proper sanitation and cleaning of the environment should done on a regular basis.

diseases, Friedman Milton, multiple comparison, chi-square.

Received: April 28, 2021; Revised: June 20, 2021; Accepted: August 21, 2021; Published: October 21, 2021

How to cite this article: Kingsley C. Arum, Henrietta E. Oranye, Tobias E. Ugah, Emmanuel I. Mba and Ifeoma C. Mba, Statistical study of some prevalent childhood diseases in Enugu State, Nigeria (a case study of Park Lane Hospital, Enugu State), JP Journal of Biostatistics 18(3) (2021), 489-504. DOI: 10.17654/BS018010489

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