Cross-sectional study of child malnutrition and associated risk factors among children aged under five in West Bengal, India

Sarkar, Sanjit

doi:10.18063/ijps.2016.01.003

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“…The present study failed to report any significant gender differentials in the prevalence of underweight status, stunting, and wasting among children which was similar to the findings revealed by certain studies 17,19,28 concluded positive significance of gender with stunting while no significance with wasting while studies by Banarjee B and Bandyopadhyay & Swami reported statistically significant association of gender and underweight status in contrast to our study. 29,30 Prevalence of underweight status, stunting, and wasting among children did not differ with respect to religion.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…Harishankar et al observed no significant relationship between age and underweight, which goes in favour of our study. 17,25 Gender and religion…”

Section: Factors Associated With Under Nutritionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sanjit Sarkar and Deshpande et al also revealed no religion wise difference in prevalence of undernutrition supporting the result of present study. 17,31…”

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Nutritional status of under- five children in a city of Maharashtra: a community based study

Purohit

Sahu

Godale³

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Children are considered to be the backbone of any nation. Nutritional problems among children cause major morbidity and mortality in India. India is home to the largest number of underweight and stunted children in the world. Aim and objectives: 1) To assess prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting among under-five children 2) To study factors associated with underweight, stunting and wasting among under-five childrenMethods: It was community based descriptive cross sectional study conducted during January 2010 to December 2011 at Urban Health Center of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine catering approximately 27000 populations. 650 under- fives residing in urban field practice area were included in the study with the help of Stratified random sampling technique. Data was analyzed using SPSS software 16 version and OpenEpi Software Version 2.3.Results: 40.46% under five children were stunted, 38.15% were underweight, and 16% were wasted. The difference observed between stunted and normal study subjects with reference to type of family, education of mother, birth weight and birth order were statistically significant. The proportion of under- five children with underweight showed significant association with their age, socioeconomic status, education mother, birth weight and birth order. Proportion of under-five children with SAM and MAM decreased significantly with increase in education status of mother. Significantly higher proportion of under-five children with birth weight less than 2.5 kg and higher birth order were grouped as SAM and MAM.Conclusions: Maternal education, birth weight and birth order of children were significantly associated with all three types of under nutrition i.e. underweight, stunting and wasting. Proportion of children with underweight increases significantly with increase in age and decrease in socioeconomic status. There was no religion wise or gender wise variation in proportion of children with under nutrition was reported among study subjects.

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“…Harishankar et al observed no significant relationship between age and underweight, which goes in favour of our study. 17,25 Gender and religion…”

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confidence: 99%

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Nutritional status of under- five children in a city of Maharashtra: a community based study

Purohit

Sahu

Godale³

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…Birth weight and household wealth index are reported to be negatively related to both stunting and wasting. Other common predictors for stunting were low maternal height, low maternal BMI, low frequency of antenatal care visits, higher birth order, low maternal educational level, children of mothers without decision making power regarding food, lack of minimum meal frequency, no feeding of eggs, dairy products, fruits and/or vegetables, or the delayed introduction of complementary foods, increasing age of child, and households without access to improved sanitation [139], [143], [144], [145], [146]. Acute respiratory infection was predictive for underweight, whereas diarrhea was a major driver for stunting among Indian children below five years [147].…”

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Effect of diversified meals only, or either enriched with Amaranthus tricolor and Moringa oleifera leaf powder or commercial micronutrient powder on prevention/treatment of anemia in Adivasi children, West Bengal, India

Stiller

Golembiewski

Stuetz

et al. 2020

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Background and objectives: Malnutrition associated with anemia remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among Adivasi children in India. The present trial aimed to test three possible ways of designing improved supplementary meals and to define their role in decreasing rates of anemia, thus increasing hemoglobin (Hb) concentrations as primary health objective: diversified meals only (intervention group 1 (IG 1)), with the addition of locally producible Amaranthus tricolor/Moringa oleifera leaf powders (ALP/MLP) in the ratio 2:1 (IG2) or with an adjusted amount of commercially produced micronutrient powder TopNutri (IG3). Methods: Cluster-randomization of 21 villages resulted in the inclusion of n=293 children aged 6-39 months after baseline assessment. The trial duration was 18 months, beginning in February 2015 (baseline assessment), with application of study meals three times a week at community level. Anthropometric, Hb (HemoCue201+) and morbidity data were collected in a total of four assessment points. At baseline a socio-economic questionnaire was performed. Results: Adjusted for age and Hb concentrations at baseline, time between assessment points, and gender; IG1 showed significant higher Hb concentrations as compared to the control group (CG) throughout the intervention period. The Hb of the remaining intervention groups IG2 or IG3, remained comparable to the CG at all assessment points. The effect on growth indices was less consistent, however most positive tendencies related to nutrition status (stunting, underweight, wasting) and morbidity reduction were attributable to IG3, indicating the beneficial role of a holistic nutrient composition in addressing undernutrition and infectious diseases. Conclusion: This low-dose intervention trial proofed the feeding of diversified diets alone (IG1) to be sufficient to significantly increase Hb concentrations of study children. On the way of achieving diversified diets for Santal children the promotion of kitchen garden programs combined with interactive awareness trainings may be a key measure. Trial registration: the trial was retrospectively registered at the German Clinical Trials Register on the 1 st July 2019 (DRKS00017388). URL: https://www.drks.de/drks_web/navigate.do?navigationId=trial.HTML&TRIAL_ID=DRKS00017388

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“…Mother's educational status was significantly associated with under-nutrition in the study done at Kalaburagi District of Karnataka [25]. Various studies done by Tiwari SR et al [33] in Mumbai, Sarkar S et al [34] in West Bengal and Upadhyay et al [35] in Puducherry showed that household income was significantly associated with malnutrition.…”

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Nutritional assessment of under five children in a rural belt of southern Rajasthan,India

Kumar

Mangal

Varghese

et al. 2019

Public Health Rev: Int J Public Health Res

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Introduction: Despite the importance given by WHO and its member countries, malnutrition of children continued to be a serious problem worldwide , especially in developing countries like India. The uneven magnitude of this problem across Indian states reveals the need for ascertaining the magnitude of malnutrition. Aims & Objectives: The present study is aimed to ascertain the magnitude and the factors affecting the malnutrition across tribal and non-tribal communities in a rural belt of southern Rajasthan. Materials & Methods: The cross-sectional study carried out during March 2018 to February 2019 covering 200 households each from the two communities included 334 and 295 under five children respectively. These children were grouped as normal, moderate and severe classes with respect to underweight, stunting and Body Mass Index as per WHO standards. The proportion of children falling in these classes across two communities were tested using SND test. The factors affecting the problem were ascertined using Chi-square test. Results: The magnitude of moderately and severely underweight children was 32.63% and 7.49% in tribal and 24.41% and 4.41% in non-tribal communities. With respect to stunting and Body Mass Index, 64.37% and 63.47% in tribal and 73.22% and 73.90% in non-tribal were found normal. The factors like household income and mother's literacy were found strongly associated with malnutrition. The magnitude of calorie intake differed significantly across communities with higher variability among tribal children. Conclusion: Nutrition, health education and good access, and utilization of healthcare with separate strategic intervention for tribal and non-tribal children can be very effective interventions to overcome the burden of malnutrition.

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Cross-sectional study of child malnutrition and associated risk factors among children aged under five in West Bengal, India

Cited by 27 publications

References 13 publications

Nutritional status of under- five children in a city of Maharashtra: a community based study

Nutritional status of under- five children in a city of Maharashtra: a community based study

Effect of diversified meals only, or either enriched with Amaranthus tricolor and Moringa oleifera leaf powder or commercial micronutrient powder on prevention/treatment of anemia in Adivasi children, West Bengal, India

Nutritional assessment of under five children in a rural belt of southern Rajasthan,India

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