ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS ON PROVISIONS AND SENSITIZATIONS TOWARDS CHILDHOOD DISEASES PREVENTION AMONG MOTHERS OF UNDER-FIVE CHILDREN IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

This study assess the community based organizations on provision and sensitization towards childhood diseases prevention among mothers of under-five children in Kaduna state, Nigeria. Two (2) research questions and two (2) hypotheses were developed and tested in this study. Descriptive design of survey type was used for this study. The population of the study area was 9,032,200, mothers of under-five children in Kaduna State. Multistage sampling technique was used in this study to select a sample of 400 respondents from 23 Local Government of Kaduna State. Multi-stage sampling procedure selection of the respondents as follows: Stage 1: Cluster sampling technique was used to adopt the three (3) existing senatorial zones namely: Kaduna central, Kaduna north and Kaduna south. Stage 2: Simple random sampling technique was used to select 3LGAs from 7 LGAs of Kaduna central, 3 LGAs from 8 LGAs of Kaduna north and 3 LGAs from 8 LGAs of Kaduna South. The researchers used self-developed questionnaire to collect data for the study. Descriptive statistic of frequency count and percentage were used to organize and describe the demographic information of the respondents and chisquare was used to test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. “The findings of the study revealed that, Community Based-Organization provided roles toward childhood killer diseases disease prevention. through provision of immunization services 2 2 (x =67.368, df=1,P