Prevalence of and Associated Factors of Stunting among Adolescents in Tehuledere District, North East Ethiopia, 2017

Tadesse, Abay Woday; Menber, Yonatan; Tsegaye, Delelegn

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“…The findings from this study show that 16.3% (95% CI: 12.5%, 20.1%) of adolescent girls were stunted. This finding is in line with a study conducted in Bible district, Eastern Ethiopia (15%), 23 Tehuledere district (15.5%), 20 and the Bangladeshi study (15.5%). 11 But it is higher than the findings from Turkey (4.4%), 15 Addis Ababa (7.2%), 45 and Mozambique (2.3%).…”

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“…Conversely, the percentage of overweight or obese women is higher in urban areas (21%) than in rural areas (4%). 19 Studies conducted in different regions of Ethiopia reveal that the overall prevalence of stunting among the adolescent girls is 15.5%, 20 20.2%, 21 12.2%, 22 and 15% 23 in Tehuledere, Arsi, Adwa, and Babli districts, respectively. Likewise, the prevalence of thinness varies across different regions of Ethiopia.…”

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Socio-demographic and economic factors are associated with nutritional status of adolescent school girls in Lay Guyint Woreda, Northwest Ethiopia

2019

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Objective: This study was aimed at assessing socio-demographic and economic factors associated with nutritional status of adolescent school girls in Lay Guyint Woreda, Northwest Ethiopia. Methods: The school-based cross-sectional study comprising 362 adolescent girls aged 10–19 years was included in the study. Simple random sampling technique with proportional allocation to size was used to select the participants. An interviewer-administered questionnaire and anthropometric measurement were used to collect the data. An anthropometric measurement was converted to the indices of nutritional status using World Health Organization Anthro Plus software. Result: The overall prevalence of stunting and thinness among adolescent girls were 16.3% and 29%, respectively. Adolescents aged 14–15 years (AOR = 3.65; 95% confidence interval: 1.87, 7.11), adolescents living in rural areas (AOR = 1.34; 95% confidence interval: 1.24, 2.33), and adolescents who did not have snack (AOR = 11.39; 95% confidence interval: 1.47, 17.8) were positively associated with stunting. Whereas mother’s occupation was negatively associated with stunting (AOR = 0.12; 95% confidence interval: 0.17, 0.87). Similarly, being a rural resident (AOR = 2.40; 95% confidence interval: 1.13, 5.08) and adolescents aged 14–15 years (AOR = 6.05; 95% confidence interval: 2.15, 17.04) were positively associated with thinness. Educational status of adolescent girls was negatively associated with thinness (AOR = 0.13; 95% confidence interval: 0.05, 0.35). Conclusion: Stunting and thinness are prevalent among adolescent girls. The age of adolescents, place of residence, having a snack, and mother’s occupation was significantly associated with stunting and thinness. Having at least a one-time snack in addition to the usual diet is strongly recommended.

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Socio-demographic and economic factors are associated with nutritional status of adolescent school girls in Lay Guyint Woreda, Northwest Ethiopia

2019

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“…Female adolescent students were 2.24 times (AOR: 2.24, 95% CI: 1.15, 4.36) more likely to be stunted as compared to male which is in line with a study conducted in West Bengal, India [23] and in Mieso woreda, Somalia region [18]. On the other hand, this result is not in line with the study result from Tehuledere District, Northeast Ethiopia, where males were 2.4 times stunted than females [24]. This variation may be in part due to socioeconomic difference, gender preference, and care delivered due to this difference.…”

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Nutritional status and associated factors among high school adolescents in Debre Tabor Town, South Gondar Zone, Northcentral Ethiopia

Zemene¹,

Engidaw²,

Gebremariam³

et al. 2019

BMC Nutr

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Background: Adolescents are among the nutritionally vulnerable group due to their nutritional demand for pubertal spurt. At this age, adequate nutrition, nutritional education, and counseling are very important to halt the consequence and its impact on this segment of the population. So, the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and its associated factors of nutritional status among high school adolescents aged 10-19 years in Debre Tabor Town, South Gondar Zone, and North central Ethiopia. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from September to October 2017. A total of 349 high school adolescents were selected by using simple random sampling. Data were collected through face to face interview and physical measurement. The data were entered into Epi info version 7 software and then exported into SPSS version 20 software for further analysis. A p-value < 0.2 was used to select independent variables for multivariable logistic regression. A p-value ≤0.05 was used to declare the statistical significance. Also, odd ratios were calculated with a 95% of the confidence interval to check the existence of the association. Result: A total of 327 adolescents participated in this study with the overall response rate of 93.69%. The magnitude of stunting and thinness was 15% (

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“…However, several ways can be pursued to improve the quality of life of stunted children, include conducting nutrition education for mothers, paying attention to children's nutritional intake, strengthening the function of nutritional counseling and health care facilities, especially at schools and primary health facilities. 11,12 Some respondents of this activity are known to experience the double burden of malnutrition, whether stunting and underweight or obese and stunting. This condition is likely due to poor nutrition management in stunting toddlers, causing them to experience a double burden of malnutrition when they are teenagers.…”

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Initiation of Sekolah Sadar Gizi by conducting nutritional status assessment and nutritional education to junior high school student

Helmyati

Huriyati

Wisnusanti

et al. 2019

J Community Empowerment for Health

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School is a strategic place to form nutrition behaviors of the students, for example, is by initiating Sekolah Sadar Gizi (Nutrition Awareness School). The first step to initiate Sekolah Sadar Gizi is collecting the nutrition situation data of the students. Nutrition education and nutritional status assessment are examples of how the data can be collected. This is a community services program aimed to provide the nutrition situation of the students and to educate the students to initiate Sekolah Sadar Gizi. The activities were conducted in August – October 2017 at Muhammadiyah 3 Junior High School. There were 2 main activities, nutritional status assessment, and nutrition education. The results show that over-nutritional and under-nutritional problem happened in all classes, either class 7, 8, or 9. The highest number of stunted and obese children is in class 8 which was around 7% and 15%. Meanwhile, the number of wasted children was around 5% and obese children were around 20%. From nutrition education which followed by Palang Merah Remaja of the school, the score of 60% of the participants was increasing. Considering the burden of nutritional problems in the school, initiation of Sekolah Sadar Gizi is highly recommended.

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Prevalence of and Associated Factors of Stunting among Adolescents in Tehuledere District, North East Ethiopia, 2017

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Socio-demographic and economic factors are associated with nutritional status of adolescent school girls in Lay Guyint Woreda, Northwest Ethiopia

Socio-demographic and economic factors are associated with nutritional status of adolescent school girls in Lay Guyint Woreda, Northwest Ethiopia

Nutritional status and associated factors among high school adolescents in Debre Tabor Town, South Gondar Zone, Northcentral Ethiopia

Initiation of Sekolah Sadar Gizi by conducting nutritional status assessment and nutritional education to junior high school student

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