Risk Factors of Underweight in Children Aged 6–59 Months in Ethiopia
المؤلفون المشاركون
Mehretie Adinew, Yohannes
Workie, Shimelash Bitew
Tosheno, Deneke
Thangavel, Thilagavathi
المصدر
Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism
العدد
المجلد 2017، العدد 2017 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2017)، ص ص. 1-8، 8ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2017-11-13
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
8
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Background.
Undernutrition in early childhood has irreversible and long-lasting implications.
Hence, this study was aimed at assessing risk factors of child undernutrition.
Methods.
A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 642 households with mothers to children pairs aged 6–59 months selected by a multistage systematic random sampling method.
Child anthropometric measurements on weight were recorded using standardized and calibrated weighing scales.
Weight-for-age was compared to the 2007 WHO growth reference by WHO Anthro software.
Data were entered using Epi-Info and analyzed using SPSS.
Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to evaluate the association between underweight children and their predictors; both crude and adjusted odds ratios with 95% confidence interval were reported.
Results.
One-fourth (25%) of the children were underweight.
Child age (AOR: 2.36), gender (AOR: 1.82), illness (AOR: 0.09), maternal decision making power (AOR: 0.07), maternal education (AOR: 0.19), employment/occupation (AOR: 5.29), and household income (AOR: 4.16) were found to be independent and significant predictors of underweight children.
Conclusion.
Significant proportion of the children were underweight.
Maternal decision-making power persists as a strong predictor of children’s weight.
Therefore, intervention programs focusing on improving mothers’ decision-making power on child nutrition would contribute to the efforts towards alleviating the problem.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Tosheno, Deneke& Mehretie Adinew, Yohannes& Thangavel, Thilagavathi& Workie, Shimelash Bitew. 2017. Risk Factors of Underweight in Children Aged 6–59 Months in Ethiopia. Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1183984
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Tosheno, Deneke…[et al.]. Risk Factors of Underweight in Children Aged 6–59 Months in Ethiopia. Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1183984
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Tosheno, Deneke& Mehretie Adinew, Yohannes& Thangavel, Thilagavathi& Workie, Shimelash Bitew. Risk Factors of Underweight in Children Aged 6–59 Months in Ethiopia. Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1183984
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1183984
قاعدة معامل التأثير والاستشهادات المرجعية العربي "ارسيف Arcif"
أضخم قاعدة بيانات عربية للاستشهادات المرجعية للمجلات العلمية المحكمة الصادرة في العالم العربي
تقوم هذه الخدمة بالتحقق من التشابه أو الانتحال في الأبحاث والمقالات العلمية والأطروحات الجامعية والكتب والأبحاث باللغة العربية، وتحديد درجة التشابه أو أصالة الأعمال البحثية وحماية ملكيتها الفكرية. تعرف اكثر