The Relationship of Family Characteristics to the Nutritional Status of Pre-School Children

Aguillon, D. B.; M, Caedo; Arnold, Jesse C.; Engel, R. W.

doi:10.1177/156482658200400411

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“…The present study corroborates results from earlier studies that have also found significant positive associations between high per capita income, maternal age, and good nutritional status in pre-school children [10][11][12][13]. Studies in Mexico, Algeria, and the United States have shown that a child born to a woman under 20 years old is twice as likely to die in infancy as one born to a woman in her mid-twenties [13].…”

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“…It was hypothesized that in large or joint families there is a greater likelihood of adult women being available to care for the young children [12]. In contrast, however, other investigators have found large family size to be significantly negatively associated with good nutritional status [10,17]. This was attributed to the inability of mothers to provide adequate care for their young children, especially where there was more than one preschool child in the family.…”

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“…This was attributed to the inability of mothers to provide adequate care for their young children, especially where there was more than one preschool child in the family. Also, intra-family distribution of food was poor, with older family members receiving the largest share [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Improved levels of maternal education have been associated with reduced child mortality [19,20], and low levels of education have repeatedly been found in mothers of malnourished children [21][22][23]. In Libya [24] and the Philippines [10] also, a decrease in the incidence of second-and third-degree malnutrition among pre-school children was observed with an increase in the level of education of mothers.…”

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Selected Socio-economic, Environmental, Maternal, and Child Factors Associated with the Nutritional Status of Infants and Toddlers

Gopaldas¹,

Patel²,

Bakshi³

1988

Food Nutr Bull

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Malnutrition is one of the most widespread public health problems facing India today. Among the highly susceptible groups are infants and toddlers (0-3 years old), who constitute nearly 10% of Indian's population. Unfortunately, they are largely ignored from a nutritional standpoint [1]. There is now a growing realization that malnutrition is not only a problem of food supply but can also be a function of more complex big-social and behavioural determinants affecting child feeding and rearing [2]. In the present study, therefore, we have attempted to identify various socio-economic, environmental, and maternal factors and the childfeeding and childrearing practices of mothers that affect the nutritional status of infants and toddlers. Methods and materials SampleTen urban slum areas in the city of Baroda and nine rural villages in the Panchmahals and Bharuch districts of Gujarat state were randomly selected for the study. These slums and villages did not have any ongoing nutrition programmes. All children 0-3 years old living in the selected study areas and available during the survey were the subjects (N = 786). ToolsThree pre-structured, pre-tested forms -family, maternal, and child -were used to collect the required information on each subject. Factors studiedThe factors studied for their association with the nutritional status of the children included family type, family size, religion, and caste; per capita income and land holding; water facilities, house sanitation, and toilet facilities; mother's educational level, working status, child-care time, height, weight, and obstetric history; breast-feeding, bottle-feeding, and weaning practices; and the child's calorie and protein intake, sex, birth order, and clinical and immunization status. Anthropometric measurementsAll the children were weighed using a Salter scale and were classified on the basis of their weight for age, using the 50th percentile of the Harvard standard and the classification of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics [3]. The mothers, heights and weights were determined by standard procedures. Dietary intakeThe 24-hour dietary intake of each child was determined by interview and observation [4]. Statistical analysisPercentages were calculated and the chi-square (x2) test was used to identify factors significantly associated with the subjects, nutritional status [5].

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Selected Socio-economic, Environmental, Maternal, and Child Factors Associated with the Nutritional Status of Infants and Toddlers

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Patel²,

Bakshi³

1988

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“…The association between urban poverty and undernutrition in developing countries is well known (Basta, 1977;Hussain and Lunven, 1977). Most studies of the urban poor have related measures of household income (Aguillon et al, 1985;Pryer, 1993;Victor et al, 1986) or other socioeconomic indicators (Zeitlin et al, 1978) directly to anthropometric indicators of nutritional status. Few studies have looked at intermediate variables, like behavior, that link income to diet and hence to nutritional status.…”

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Living on the edge: Dietary strategies of economically impoverished women in Cali, Colombia

Dufour

Staten

Reina

et al. 1997

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Economically impoverished women in Cali, Colombia, have restricted access to food in a city where food is abundant. Ethnographic observations, interviews and 2 day food records were used to better understand the coping strategies used by a group of these women (n = 85) to maintain adequate levels of energy intake. Anthropometric indicators of nutritional status were normal for the group. Interview data revealed that the ability to purchase food was a concern for 58% of the women. When faced with a restricted ability to purchase food, the women indicated they made compromises in meal composition, reduced portion sizes, and/or reduced the number of meals. They also relied on relatives, friends, neighbors, store credit, or local government programs for access to food. Changes in meal composition were identified in 17.1% of all diet records (n = 509). Low energy intake (defined as energy intake < or = 1.27 x BMR) was identified in 17.1% of all diet records. Carbohydrate consumption was significantly greater on low-energy intake days. The adequate nutritional status of this group of women suggests that their coping strategies are usually adequate to maintain energy intake, but the presence of uncertainty, the frequency of compromises in diet composition, and the frequency of low-energy intake days suggest that these women are at risk for undernutrition.

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Household size, food intake and anthropometric status of school-age children in a highland Mexican area

Pelto

Urgello

Allen

et al. 1991

Social Science & Medicine

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The Relationship of Family Characteristics to the Nutritional Status of Pre-School Children

Cited by 17 publications

References 8 publications

Selected Socio-economic, Environmental, Maternal, and Child Factors Associated with the Nutritional Status of Infants and Toddlers

Selected Socio-economic, Environmental, Maternal, and Child Factors Associated with the Nutritional Status of Infants and Toddlers

Living on the edge: Dietary strategies of economically impoverished women in Cali, Colombia

Household size, food intake and anthropometric status of school-age children in a highland Mexican area

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