Nutritional status of preschool children attending kindergartens in Kosovo

Rysha, Agim; Gjergji, Tahire; Ploeger, Angelika

doi:10.1186/s41043-017-0105-1

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“…The obesity prevalence in our study was higher compared to the previous data collected in younger children in Kosovo in 2017 [ 10 ], which showed an obesity prevalence of 2,3%. The prevalence of overweight was also found to be higher compared to Rysha et al [ 10 ], who, however, operated a distinction between overweight (8,9%) and risk of being overweight (27,3%), by also referring to the 2006 WHO standards for infants and younger children. Our overweight and obesity prevalence data is in line with the overweight [ 14 ] and obesity [ 13 ] WHO prevalence data for the Serbian population aged 5–19 years.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…By contrast, 1,2% stunting and 1,5% underweight subjects were found in our study, which suggests that malnutrition might be less prevalent nowadays. The undernutrition prevalence in our study was also lower than the 3% prevalence of stunting from a study performed in Kosovo in 2017 [ 10 ]. Although Kosovo remains one of the poorest countries in Europe, it has undergone a slow though progressive transition to better living conditions.…”

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confidence: 70%

“…More recently, a single study has been published addressing the nutritional status of preschool children attending nursery schools in Kosovo [ 10 ]. Authors reported 3% of stunted and 1.9% of wasted children, whilst up to 8.9% of included children resulted to be overweight and 2.3% obese.…”

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Nutritional status of children and adolescents in three Serbian enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija

Fabiano¹,

Barcellini²,

Sartorio³

et al. 2021

BMC Public Health

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Objective To evaluate nutritional status of children and adolescents living in three Serbian enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija. Methods We conducted an observational cross-sectional, population-based study, enrolling children and adolescents who underwent a pediatric screening performed in the three Serbian enclaves of Gračanica, Gornje Kusce and Velika Hoča in Kosovo and Metohija. Children and adolescents (5–19 years) of all ethnic groups were evaluated in one of the three free outpatient medical facilities in rural villages in Kosovo. Body weight and height were measured, height-for-age z- scores (HAZ) and BMI-for-age z-scores (BAZ) indicators were analyzed. The anthropometric indicators HAZ and BAZ distributions were compared between sex and ages using Fisher’s exact test. A two-sample Z-test for proportions was used to detect differences in individual categories of height- and BMI-for-age categories across sexes and age classes. Results Three hundred twenty-eight children and adolescents (184 females, 56.1% and 144 males, 43.9%) aged between 5 and 19 years were enrolled in the study. 241/328 participants showed a normal linear growth; with significantly more girls (78.3%) than boys (67.4%) being in the normal category. Similarly, a significant difference in BAZ distribution between sexes was noted, with more females being in the normal BMI category compared to males (63.0% vs 50.0%, respectively). Underweight and severe underweight subjects showed a prevalence of 1.5 and 0.6%, respectively. Overweight and obesity prevalence was 19.5 and 9.1%, respectively, which was comparable to World Health Organization overweight and obesity prevalence data for Serbia. Conclusions Prevalence of undernutrition and severe undernutrition in children and adolescents living in three Serbian enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija is small. By contrast, a tendency to an increase in overweight and obesity, especially in the male population, was noted.

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Sartorio³

et al. 2021

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“…After having a perusal of the previous studies, it is found that there is an anomaly in the age group selection for pre-school children in the studies of Indian settings as well as studies conducted in foreign countries (28,(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39). The age group ranges from 0-7 years in these studies.…”

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“…Leaving aside the debate of age groups of pre-school children, this study surveyed the previous studies which investigated the risk factors of stunting among younger children. It has been found that individual child characteristics, e.g., child's age, sex, birth interval, birth order and birth weight are the associated factors of stunting (32,34,36,37,43,44). Many studies found that children born with low birth weight are more prone to become stunted in their childhood (45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51).…”

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Nutritional status and its concomitant factors among pre-school children in Malda, India: A micro-level study using a multilevel approach

Sk¹,

Banerjee²,

Mj³

2020

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BackgroundMalnutrition was the main cause of death among children below five years in every Indian state in 2017. Despite several flagship programmes and schemes implemented by the Indian Government, the latest edition of the Global Nutrition Report 2018 addressed that India tops in the number of stunted children, that is a matter of concern. Thus, a micro-level study was designed to know the level of nutritional status and to study this by various disaggregate levels, as well as to examine the risk factors of stunting among pre-school children aged 36-59 months in Malda. MethodA primary quantitative survey was conducted using structured questionnaires following a multi-stage, stratified simple random sampling procedure. A sum of 731 samples collected. Anthropometric measures of children were collected following the WHO child growth standard. Children were classified as stunted, wasted and underweight if their HAZ, WHZ and WAZ scores, respectively were less than −2SD. Univariate descriptive statistics have been carried out to describe the sample characteristics and random intercept multilevel logistic regression model has been employed to estimate the effects of possible risk factors on childhood stunting. ResultsThe prevalence of stunting in the study area is 40 per cent among children aged 36-59 months which is very high prevalence as per the WHO’s cut-off values (≥40 per cent) for public health significance. Results of the multilevel analysis revealed that preceding birth interval, low birth weight, duration of breastfeeding, mother’s age at birth, mother’s education and occupation are the associated risk factors of stunting. Among them, low birth weight (OR 2.22, 95%CI: 1.44-3.41) and bidi worker as mothers’ occupation (OR 1.92, 95%CI: 1.18-3.12) are the most influencing factors of stunting. Further, about 14 per cent and 86 per cent variation in stunting lies at community and child/household level respectively.ConclusionSpecial attention needs to be placed for the modifiable risk factors of childhood stunting. Policy interventions should direct community health workers to encourage women as well as their male partner to increase birth interval using various family planning practices, provide extra care for low birth weight baby that can help to reduce childhood stunting.

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Factors associated with the nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in Guinea between 2005 and 2018

Bangoura

Rabilloud

Camara

et al. 2022

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To determine the factors associated with the nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in Guinea between 2005 and 2018. Design: Data from the 2005, 2012 and 2018 Guinea Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) were used for this study. Three anthropometric indicators (stunting, underweight, wasting) were assessed according to the 2006 WHO Child Growth Standards and analysed according to the year, the characteristics of the household, the child and the mother using multivariate logistic regression. Setting: Data were collected in the capital Conakry and in the seven administrative regions of Guinea. Participants: The study included children under 5 years of age for whom height and weight were available: 2765 (DHS-2005), 3220 (DHS-2012) and 3551 (DHS-2018). Results: Analysis of the data from the 3 surveys showed that children living in rural areas were more likely to be stunted than children living in urban areas (OR=1.32, 95% CI [1.08; 1.62]). Similarly, the children from middle, poor and the poorest households were more likely to be stunted and underweight than children from richest households. The chance to stunting increased with age in the first 3 years. However, the chance to wasting decreased with age. Children in all age groups were more likely of being underweight. Children of thin mothers were more likely to be both wasted (OR=2.0, 95% CI [1.5; 2.6]) and underweight (OR=1.9, 95% CI [1.5; 2.3]). Conclusion: The implementation of targeted interventions adapted to the observed disparities could considerably improve the nutritional status of children and mothers.

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Nutritional status of preschool children attending kindergartens in Kosovo

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

Nutritional status of children and adolescents in three Serbian enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija

Nutritional status of children and adolescents in three Serbian enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija

Nutritional status and its concomitant factors among pre-school children in Malda, India: A micro-level study using a multilevel approach

Factors associated with the nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in Guinea between 2005 and 2018

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