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Impact of maternal education, employment and family size on nutritional status of children

OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of maternal education, employment, and family size on nutritional status of children. METHODS: It was case control study conducted at OPD of children Hospital Lahore, from September 2015 to April 2017. Total 340 children (170 cases and 170 controls) with age range...

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Autores principales: Iftikhar, Aisha, Bari, Attia, Bano, Iqbal, Masood, Qaisar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Professional Medical Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5768833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29492067
http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.336.13689
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author Iftikhar, Aisha
Bari, Attia
Bano, Iqbal
Masood, Qaisar
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Bari, Attia
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Masood, Qaisar
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description OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of maternal education, employment, and family size on nutritional status of children. METHODS: It was case control study conducted at OPD of children Hospital Lahore, from September 2015 to April 2017. Total 340 children (170 cases and 170 controls) with age range of six months to five years along with their mothers were included. Anthropometric measurements were plotted against WHO growth Charts. 170 wasted (<-2 SD) were matched with 170 controls (≥ -2 SD). Maternal education, employment and family size were compared between the cases and control. Confounding variables noted and dichotomized. Univariate analysis was carried out for factors under consideration i.e.; Maternal Education, employment and family size to study the association of each factor. Logistic regression analysis was applied to study the independent association. RESULTS: Maternal education had significant association with growth parameters; OR of 1.32 with confidence interval of (CI= 1.1 to 1.623). Employment status of mothers had OR of 1.132 with insignificant confidence interval of (CI=0.725 to 1.768). Family size had OR of one with insignificant confidence interval (CI=0.8 -1.21). Association remained same after applying bivariate logistic regression analysis. CONCLUSION: Maternal education has definite and significant effect on nutritional status of children. This is the key factor to be addressed for prevention or improvement of childhood malnutrition. For this it is imperative to launch sustainable programs at national and regional level to uplift women educational status to combat this ever increasing burden of malnutrition.
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spelling pubmed-57688332018-02-28 Impact of maternal education, employment and family size on nutritional status of children Iftikhar, Aisha Bari, Attia Bano, Iqbal Masood, Qaisar Pak J Med Sci Original Article OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of maternal education, employment, and family size on nutritional status of children. METHODS: It was case control study conducted at OPD of children Hospital Lahore, from September 2015 to April 2017. Total 340 children (170 cases and 170 controls) with age range of six months to five years along with their mothers were included. Anthropometric measurements were plotted against WHO growth Charts. 170 wasted (<-2 SD) were matched with 170 controls (≥ -2 SD). Maternal education, employment and family size were compared between the cases and control. Confounding variables noted and dichotomized. Univariate analysis was carried out for factors under consideration i.e.; Maternal Education, employment and family size to study the association of each factor. Logistic regression analysis was applied to study the independent association. RESULTS: Maternal education had significant association with growth parameters; OR of 1.32 with confidence interval of (CI= 1.1 to 1.623). Employment status of mothers had OR of 1.132 with insignificant confidence interval of (CI=0.725 to 1.768). Family size had OR of one with insignificant confidence interval (CI=0.8 -1.21). Association remained same after applying bivariate logistic regression analysis. CONCLUSION: Maternal education has definite and significant effect on nutritional status of children. This is the key factor to be addressed for prevention or improvement of childhood malnutrition. For this it is imperative to launch sustainable programs at national and regional level to uplift women educational status to combat this ever increasing burden of malnutrition. Professional Medical Publications 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5768833/ /pubmed/29492067 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.336.13689 Text en Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Impact of maternal education, employment and family size on nutritional status of children
title_sort impact of maternal education, employment and family size on nutritional status of children
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5768833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29492067
http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.336.13689
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