Mothers literacy status and its association with feeding practices and PEM among 1–5 year aged children in southern part of India, Mysore

Kumar, Amresh; Koppad, Raghavendraswamy; Ashok, N C; Madhu, B; Kumar, Dinesh; Dhar, Muruli; Chandrashekar, SV

doi:10.1016/s2222-1808(12)60233-3

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“…[6] It is supported by other authors as well. [7,8] Our study has shown 55.2 and 44.8% undernutrition among boys and girls respectively, where as a study by Hasan et al [9] has shown higher incidence of undernutrition among boys as compared to girls.…”

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Community Based Intervention for Reducing Undernutrition in Infants and Young Children in Karad, Maharashtra

Ingale¹,

Dagar²

2016

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Community Based Intervention for Reducing Undernutrition in Infants and Young Children in Karad, Maharashtra

Ingale¹,

Dagar²

2016

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“…Findings in our study were similar as compared with another study conducted by Kumar et al in urban slums of Mysore city where prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting was found to be significantly higher (p<0.005) in children with history of respiratory infections and diarrhoea. 13 So, repeated infections in recent time period might had aggravated the continuous nutritional deficient stage and children's nutritional status worsened further.…”

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A cross-sectional study to evaluate malnutrition prevalence in under 5 children and health seeking behaviour of their parents in an urban slum area of a metropolitan city

Inkane

Chavan

Bawa

et al. 2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Malnutrition is widespread in rural, tribal and urban slum areas and it is a significant public health problem described as a silent killer, silent emergency, and invisible enemy affecting those who cannot express their voice and have to depend upon others for their advocacy. Numerous studies showed that education of parent’s, especially maternal education emerges as a key element of an overall strategy to address malnutrition. The best global indicator of children’s wellbeing is growth. Assessment of anthropometry is the single measurement that best defines the nutritional and health status of children, and provides an indirect measurement of the quality of life of the entire population.Methods: Community based cross-sectional study was carried out in an urban slum area of Mumbai city, Maharashtra. Total 300 children of 0-5 years of age were enrolled in the study. A list of all the children below five years of age belonging to study area was taken from the health post situated in premises of UHTC. All mothers or primary care takers of the children were interviewed and weight and height of the children was recorded.Results: Prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting was 69.33%, 60.33% and 45.66% respectively. Mother’s literacy, low birth weight and morbidities like diarrhoea, fever and cough in previous fifteen days were significantly associated with malnutrition.Conclusions:Chronic malnutrition was more prevalent in this area. Mother’s literacy had a much higher impact on better nutritional status of children. Morbidities like diarrhoea, fever and cough had made the children nutritionally vulnerable as malnutrition was higher in those children.

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“…They are our future and are supremely important asset of nation. 1 Pre-schoolers in India constitute 15% of the total population as against 7% in the developed countries of the world. Nutrition of these pre-schoolers is of prime importance as they are most vulnerable to deficiency/ malnutrition [2] .…”

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Prevalence of under-nutrition among under five children and its associated factors in urban area of Municipal Corporation of Nanded

K¹,

K²,

B³

et al. 2019

Int. J. Adv. Community Med.

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Introduction: Nutrition of the pre-schoolers is of prime importance as they are most vulnerable to under-nutrition. Objective: 1) To estimate the prevalence of under-nutrition among under five children (6-60 months).2) To study of associated factors causing under-nutrition. Material and methods: The present study was a community based cross sectional study. Probability Proportional to Size Cluster Sampling Technique was used for selecting the sample. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS 16.0 version for chi-square test and percentages. The confidence limit for significance was fixed at 95% level with p-value <0.05. Results: According to the WHO classification of undernutrition, overall prevalence of underweight was 47.4%, stunting 39.7% and wasting 24.4%. Conclusion: From this study it was concluded that less than half of children were underweight, nearly one third were stunted and one fourth of children were wasted.

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Mothers literacy status and its association with feeding practices and PEM among 1–5 year aged children in southern part of India, Mysore

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Community Based Intervention for Reducing Undernutrition in Infants and Young Children in Karad, Maharashtra

Community Based Intervention for Reducing Undernutrition in Infants and Young Children in Karad, Maharashtra

A cross-sectional study to evaluate malnutrition prevalence in under 5 children and health seeking behaviour of their parents in an urban slum area of a metropolitan city

Prevalence of under-nutrition among under five children and its associated factors in urban area of Municipal Corporation of Nanded

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