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Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors in children aged 6–59 months among rural dwellers of damot gale district, south Ethiopia: community based cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: Malnutrition remains one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality among children throughout the world. This study aimed to assess prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among children aged 6–59 months in Damot Gale, South Ethiopia. METHODS: A community based cross...

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Autores principales: Abera, Lamirot, Dejene, Tariku, Laelago, Tariku
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5485492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28651621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0608-9
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author Abera, Lamirot
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Laelago, Tariku
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description BACKGROUND: Malnutrition remains one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality among children throughout the world. This study aimed to assess prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among children aged 6–59 months in Damot Gale, South Ethiopia. METHODS: A community based cross sectional study was conducted on 398 children aged 6–59 months in the Damot Gale district. A two-stage cluster sample design was used to select kebele and households. Anthropometric measurements and structured questionnaires were used to collect data. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression was done by using SPSS version 20. RESULTS: The results of this study indicated that 27.6% of children were under-weight and 9% were wasted. Being male (AOR: 1.90; 95% CI: (1.10–3.32), children with shorter birth interval (AOR:2.89;95% CI: (1.23–6.80), children who had sickness some times for past 2 weeks (AOR:0.42; 95% CI:(0.10–0.93) and children whose mothers attended ANC (AOR:0.29; 95% CI: (0.16–0.52) were associated with underweight. Children whose mother’s main occupation was non-farm (AOR: 7.06;95% CI: (1.31–38.21), presence of diarrhea (AOR:39.5, 95% CI: (13.68–114.30), and children whose mothers attended ANC (AOR:0.18,95% CI: (0 .18 (0.07–0.45) were associated with wasting. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of malnutrition in the study area was high. Health extension workers and stakeholders should give due concern on promotion of proper nutrition in the community.
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spelling pubmed-54854922017-06-30 Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors in children aged 6–59 months among rural dwellers of damot gale district, south Ethiopia: community based cross sectional study Abera, Lamirot Dejene, Tariku Laelago, Tariku Int J Equity Health Research BACKGROUND: Malnutrition remains one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality among children throughout the world. This study aimed to assess prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among children aged 6–59 months in Damot Gale, South Ethiopia. METHODS: A community based cross sectional study was conducted on 398 children aged 6–59 months in the Damot Gale district. A two-stage cluster sample design was used to select kebele and households. Anthropometric measurements and structured questionnaires were used to collect data. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression was done by using SPSS version 20. RESULTS: The results of this study indicated that 27.6% of children were under-weight and 9% were wasted. Being male (AOR: 1.90; 95% CI: (1.10–3.32), children with shorter birth interval (AOR:2.89;95% CI: (1.23–6.80), children who had sickness some times for past 2 weeks (AOR:0.42; 95% CI:(0.10–0.93) and children whose mothers attended ANC (AOR:0.29; 95% CI: (0.16–0.52) were associated with underweight. Children whose mother’s main occupation was non-farm (AOR: 7.06;95% CI: (1.31–38.21), presence of diarrhea (AOR:39.5, 95% CI: (13.68–114.30), and children whose mothers attended ANC (AOR:0.18,95% CI: (0 .18 (0.07–0.45) were associated with wasting. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of malnutrition in the study area was high. Health extension workers and stakeholders should give due concern on promotion of proper nutrition in the community. BioMed Central 2017-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5485492/ /pubmed/28651621 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0608-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors in children aged 6–59 months among rural dwellers of damot gale district, south Ethiopia: community based cross sectional study
title Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors in children aged 6–59 months among rural dwellers of damot gale district, south Ethiopia: community based cross sectional study
title_full Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors in children aged 6–59 months among rural dwellers of damot gale district, south Ethiopia: community based cross sectional study
title_fullStr Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors in children aged 6–59 months among rural dwellers of damot gale district, south Ethiopia: community based cross sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors in children aged 6–59 months among rural dwellers of damot gale district, south Ethiopia: community based cross sectional study
title_short Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors in children aged 6–59 months among rural dwellers of damot gale district, south Ethiopia: community based cross sectional study
title_sort prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors in children aged 6–59 months among rural dwellers of damot gale district, south ethiopia: community based cross sectional study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5485492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28651621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0608-9
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