Nutritional Status of Children with Severe Malnutrition in Elnohoud Educational Hospital in West Kordofan State, Sudan

Abstract

The present work was conducted in Elnohoud educational hospital, West Kordofan State, Sudan during the period from 2015 – 2017. The aim of the study was to identify the nutritional status among children less than five years of age. Study included 100 children. Data were collected using a structural interview questionnaire, then analyzed via the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 16. The results indicated that the majority of patients (73%) in age group of 13-24 months, and their resident in rural areas (94%) and belonged to large families' more than six family members (56%), also the birth spacing were 74% less than one year and 26% were more than one year. 84% of the mothers were housewives, while 70% of fathers were farmers and workers. and 71% of mothers were more than 24 years old. 70% of the malnourished children received insufficient breastfeeding mainly due to pregnancy or mother's illness. Nearly (89%) were introduced to supplementary food with breastfeeding before 6 months, and (75%) of surveyed received less than three meals/day of unbalanced inferior quality foods (88%). Additionally 66% of studied children used the traditional treatments such as razor cut, fire and hilba for diseases control. Also 58% of the studied children had cases of sickness previously admittance to hospital two times. A cause of nutritional status of Children with severe malnutrition problems in another places of Kordofan regions rather than Elnuhoud educational hospital need to be elaborated in future work as recommended point of view.