Risk factors for undernutrition in under-five children living in a migrant populated area of South Delhi

Dabar, Deepti; Yadav, Vikas; Goel, Akhil Dhanesh; Mangal, Abha; Prasad, Priyanka; Singh, Mahendra

doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1185_19

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“…Of a sample of 1,459 children under five years, over half (53.8%) were continuously breastfed from birth until their current age (months). This result was similar to the previous studies in that breastfeeding was a preventive factor for reducing childhood stunting (Dabar et al, 2020;Rathaur et al, 2018;Sari et al, 2021). In a mother's breast milk, colostrum, essential nutrients, and vitamins are already included for optimal growth and development of children.…”

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confidence: 91%

Factors Predicting Chronic Malnutrition Among Young Children in Myanmar

Mon¹,

Payakkaraung²,

Rungamornrat³

2023

JPSS

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Chronic malnutrition (i.e., stunting) is one of the significant health problems among children under five years old in Myanmar. The government has been trying to accelerate the reduction of malnutrition by collaborating and coordinating with other government and non-government organizations. However, the prevalence of chronic malnutrition remains high. This study examines the factors that could predict chronic malnutrition among young children using the Myanmar Demographic and Health Survey 2015–2016. Data record forms were used to collect the required information from the original data source. Descriptive statistics, the chi-square test, and logistic regression analysis were applied to analyze the data analysis and to determine the predictive power of independent variables. It was found that breastfeeding, birth weight, and family wealth index were significant predictors of childhood stunting. This study recommends emphasizing low-birth-weight infants to prevent chronic malnutrition and promote breastfeeding for all infants and children in Myanmar. Furthermore, policymakers should try poverty reduction and establish healthcare services that are easily accessible to the public, especially to the poor. Based on the findings of this study, more efforts to set up readily available public health services providing care for pregnant women and promoting breastfeeding would be some better precautions against chronic malnutrition for every child, particularly from developing countries.

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confidence: 91%

Factors Predicting Chronic Malnutrition Among Young Children in Myanmar

Mon¹,

Payakkaraung²,

Rungamornrat³

2023

JPSS

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“…A study conducted in Ghana by Boah et al, 16 showed association of father's education with wasting. A study conducted by Dabar et al, 17 in South Delhi showed that underweight and stunting was significantly associated with parent's education but not with family type. A study conducted in Jaipur, Rajasthan by Chaudhary and Agarwal, (2018) 18 showed that undernutrition was associated with family type, parent's education, and socioeconomic status.…”

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“…A study conducted by Jeyakumar et al, 26 in slum areas of Pune showed that birth weight was significantly associated with undernutrition while underweight was significantly associated with immunization status and wasting was associated with colostrum given and initiation of complementary feeding. A study conducted by Dabar et al, 17 in South Delhi showed that stunting was significantly associated with exclusive breastfeeding while underweight was not significantly associated with it. A study conducted by Gautam et al, 12 in Kanpur showed that malnutrition was significantly associated with birth order.…”

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confidence: 95%

Prevalence of undernutrition and associated risk factors among under five children in rural Haldwani

Preeti¹,

Awasthi²,

Gupta³

et al. 2023

Asian J Med Sci

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Background: The foundation of any nation is children. Malnutrition in children is global issue that may have both short- and long-term irreversible negative health consequences and thus associated with morbidity and mortality. Aims and Objectives: The study aims to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of under-nutrition among under-five children in rural area of Haldwani. Materials and Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study conducted on Four hundred children residing in the rural field practice area of the Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Haldwani. Results: The prevalence of underweight, stunting, and wasting was 7.75%, 9.25%, and 4%, respectively among under five children. The risk factors found significantly associated with undernutrition and sociodemographic profile were family size, parent’s education, mother’s occupation, and the socioeconomic class. The maternal factors found significantly associated with undernutrition were intake of iron folic acid tablets during antenatal care and postnatal care period, duration of pregnancy, site of delivery. Prelacteal, colostrum given, exclusive breastfeeding, and age of introducing complementary feeding and occurrence of recurrent diarrhea, recurrent acute respiratory infection, and worm infestation were child characteristics and medical illness found significantly associated with undernutrition. Conclusion: In this study, 17.5% of children were found undernourished. Factors determining undernourishment were parents literacy, social class, type and size of family, iron folic acid taken during pregnancy, feeding practices, immunization status, history of recurrent diarrhea, and other infections in the past 1 year.

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“…Similar studies by Hasan et al ., Dabar et al ., and Devi et al ., have shown that children of mothers with secondary or higher education were at lower risk of childhood malnutrition when compared with children of mothers with no education. [ 16 17 18 ]…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As the family size increases there is division of resources (dietary resources), overcrowding, and poor care of children which increases the chances of children to suffer from undernutrition. [ 17 23 ]…”

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Undernutrition and associated factors among children 1-5 years of age in rural area of Haryana, India: A community based cross-sectional study

Chawla

Gupta

Singh

et al. 2020

J Family Med Prim Care

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Background: Children under five years of age are most vulnerable to the vicious cycles of malnutrition, disease/infection and resultant disability all of which influence the present condition of a child at the microlevel and the future human resource development of the nation at the macrolevel. Aim: The present study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of undernutrition among under-five children; and to determine the associated factors. Methods: All 112 Anganwadi Centres in block Lakhan Majra were enlisted and 30 Anganwadi Centres were selected by adopting systematic random sampling. From each selected Anganwadi Centre, 20 children of 15 years of age group were selected by simple random sampling, thus, a sample of 600 children was included in the study. Results: Overall prevalence of undernutrition in our study was found as follows: wasted 18.4%; underweight 38.3%; stunted 41.3%. Mothers who had four or more ANC visits and IFA intake for 100 or more days had lower prevalence of wasting, stunting, and underweight than the mothers with three or less ANC visits and inadequate IFA intake. Children with a history of pre-lacteal feeding had higher prevalence of stunting, underweight, and wasting than the children with no history of pre-lacteal feeding. Conclusion: Every endeavor should be made to combat the outcomes of undernutrition through multipronged approach such as growth monitoring, nutritional supplementation, etc., Also, present study findings reinforce the importance of proper infant and child feeding practices and appropriate maternal care in prevention of childhood undernutrition.

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Risk factors for undernutrition in under-five children living in a migrant populated area of South Delhi

Cited by 10 publications

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Factors Predicting Chronic Malnutrition Among Young Children in Myanmar

Factors Predicting Chronic Malnutrition Among Young Children in Myanmar

Prevalence of undernutrition and associated risk factors among under five children in rural Haldwani

Undernutrition and associated factors among children 1-5 years of age in rural area of Haryana, India: A community based cross-sectional study

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