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Malnutrition in children admitted to Karbala pediatric teaching hospital : prevalence and associated risk factors
العناوين الأخرى
سوء التغدية عند الأطفال الراقدين في مستشفى كربلاء التعليمي للأطفال : الانتشار و عوامل الخطورة
المؤلف
Abu Shuraydah, Abd al-Karim Jasim
المصدر
العدد
المجلد 12، العدد 2 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2009)، ص ص. 165-176، 12ص.
الناشر
تاريخ النشر
2009-12-31
دولة النشر
العراق
عدد الصفحات
12
التخصصات الرئيسية
الموضوعات
الملخص EN
Background : malnutrition is one of the most serious world health problems.
In Iraq the prevalence of chronic malnutrition among children under five has reached an average of 25 %.
Malnutrition is an outcome of various factors resulting from unfavorable socioeconomic circumstances.
Objective : to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of malnutrition in children less than 5 years of age admitted to Karbala Pediatric Teaching Hospital, Karbala.
Methods : A prospective observational survey.
All children from 6 months to 5 years of age admitted between January 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007, were screened for moderate to severe malnutrition.
A total of 1357 children who met the study criteria were enrolled.
Assessment of risk factors for child malnutrition was accomplished through a structured questionnaire used to interview parents and caretakers.
The anthropometric measurements were assessed according to standard techniques used to calculate z-scores for weight-for-age, weight-for-height and height-for-age.
As reference curve, the reference growth curves of the NCHS were used.
Results : During the study period a total of 19258 children were admitted to the pediatric wards about 12519 (65 %) of the admissions were in the age group 6–60 months.
Of this group, 1357 (10.83 %) were moderately to severely malnourished.
Overall 31.98 % of the study children were stunted, 4.347 % wasted and 22.33 % underweight for their age.
Stunting is low among infants aged 6–12 months (20.09 %) while about (44 %) of all children aged 13-60 months are classified as stunted.
Mothers ages bellow 20 years is a risk factor (50.27 %) of stunting.
Stunting was found to be higher among children of no education (or illiterate) mothers (51.21 %) compared higher education mothers 16.20 %.
The study revealed that (51.30 %) of the study children in large house hold were stunted as compared to (14.16 %) in small house hold.
Prevalence of underweight among children who were mixed feeding was (64.92 %) and (45.34 %) if more than 2 children under 5 in the family.
Conclusion : there is a high rate of malnutrition among children admitted in Karbala teaching hospital and there are several risk factors for stunting malnutrition.
Prominent risk factors include uneducated mothers, more than 2 children under 5, large house hold size, chronic illness and bottle feeding.
Most of the risk factors are preventable.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Abu Shuraydah, Abd al-Karim Jasim. 2009. Malnutrition in children admitted to Karbala pediatric teaching hospital : prevalence and associated risk factors. Kufa Medical Journal،Vol. 12, no. 2, pp.165-176.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-327132
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Abu Shuraydah, Abd al-Karim Jasim. Malnutrition in children admitted to Karbala pediatric teaching hospital : prevalence and associated risk factors. Kufa Medical Journal Vol. 12, no. 2 (2009), pp.165-176.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-327132
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Abu Shuraydah, Abd al-Karim Jasim. Malnutrition in children admitted to Karbala pediatric teaching hospital : prevalence and associated risk factors. Kufa Medical Journal. 2009. Vol. 12, no. 2, pp.165-176.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-327132
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references : p. 175-176
رقم السجل
BIM-327132
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