Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is common health problem in children, various contributing factors rise the incidence of UTI. The objective of this study is to find out the incidence and contributing factors of UTI in children between 1 month to 6 years. The incidence of UTI in children who visited the Pediatric department is 3.2%. Out of 508 suspected case of UTI, 36.6% were diagnosed UTI positive. Regarding UTI positive cases, 47% had urine culture test positive result by isolating the bacterial species. Concerning the urine culture positve, 92% shows isolation of E. Coli and 5.8% shows Klebsiella species. There is corelation between mothers education status (p-value <0.001), occupation (p-value <0.001), children age (p-value 0.048), and ethnicity (p-value <0.001) with the occurance of UTI. In this study, not cleaning genital organ after urination (71.5%), the inappropriate way of cleaning genital organ after defecation (67.2%) and not changing diaper after each urination (100%), respectively were identified as a major contributing factors for UTI in children. Therefore, knowledge of mothers in regard to children health and hygiene and proper practice play effective role to prevent UTI in children.
