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Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among 6 to 23 months old children in the Sahel Region of Burkina Faso
INTRODUCTION: Despite the efforts of nutrition stakeholders in Burkina Faso to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, the country is still struggling to stem undernutrition. Wasting, or acute malnutrition, is the form of malnutrition that has the most harmful short-term consequence...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7046113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32153704 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.34.164.19886 |
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author | Paré, Boyo Constant Dahourou, Désiré Lucien Kabore, Ahmed Sana, Adama Kinda, Réné Ouaro, Bertine Dahany, Marie-Michelle Hien, Hervé Méda, Nicolas |
author_facet | Paré, Boyo Constant Dahourou, Désiré Lucien Kabore, Ahmed Sana, Adama Kinda, Réné Ouaro, Bertine Dahany, Marie-Michelle Hien, Hervé Méda, Nicolas |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Despite the efforts of nutrition stakeholders in Burkina Faso to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, the country is still struggling to stem undernutrition. Wasting, or acute malnutrition, is the form of malnutrition that has the most harmful short-term consequences for children. The objective of our study was to estimate the prevalence of wasting in children aged 6-23 months in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso and to identify its associated factors. METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the 2015 National Nutrition Survey. The factors associated with wasting in the studied population were identified using a logistic regression. RESULTS: A total of 956 children participated in the study. The prevalence of wasting was 25% (95% CI [22.28, 27.87]) in the Sahel region. Only 24.37% of children received a minimum meal frequency and 13.38% received a minimum dietary diversification the day before the survey. In the multivariate analysis, being male (aOR = 1.99; 95% CI [1.46, 2.72]), breastfeeding the day before the survey (aOR = 2.43; 95% CI [1.13, 5.22]), and having a history of illness (aOR = 2.32; 95% CI [1.67, 3.21]) significantly increased the risk of acute malnutrition. CONCLUSION: In 2015, the prevalence of wasting among children was high in the Sahel region and good IYCF practices were still inadequate. There is an urgent need to implement good IYCF practices and strengthen interventions to improve infant health in this region. |
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spelling | pubmed-70461132020-03-09 Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among 6 to 23 months old children in the Sahel Region of Burkina Faso Paré, Boyo Constant Dahourou, Désiré Lucien Kabore, Ahmed Sana, Adama Kinda, Réné Ouaro, Bertine Dahany, Marie-Michelle Hien, Hervé Méda, Nicolas Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: Despite the efforts of nutrition stakeholders in Burkina Faso to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, the country is still struggling to stem undernutrition. Wasting, or acute malnutrition, is the form of malnutrition that has the most harmful short-term consequences for children. The objective of our study was to estimate the prevalence of wasting in children aged 6-23 months in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso and to identify its associated factors. METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the 2015 National Nutrition Survey. The factors associated with wasting in the studied population were identified using a logistic regression. RESULTS: A total of 956 children participated in the study. The prevalence of wasting was 25% (95% CI [22.28, 27.87]) in the Sahel region. Only 24.37% of children received a minimum meal frequency and 13.38% received a minimum dietary diversification the day before the survey. In the multivariate analysis, being male (aOR = 1.99; 95% CI [1.46, 2.72]), breastfeeding the day before the survey (aOR = 2.43; 95% CI [1.13, 5.22]), and having a history of illness (aOR = 2.32; 95% CI [1.67, 3.21]) significantly increased the risk of acute malnutrition. CONCLUSION: In 2015, the prevalence of wasting among children was high in the Sahel region and good IYCF practices were still inadequate. There is an urgent need to implement good IYCF practices and strengthen interventions to improve infant health in this region. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7046113/ /pubmed/32153704 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.34.164.19886 Text en © Boyo Constant Paré et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Paré, Boyo Constant Dahourou, Désiré Lucien Kabore, Ahmed Sana, Adama Kinda, Réné Ouaro, Bertine Dahany, Marie-Michelle Hien, Hervé Méda, Nicolas Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among 6 to 23 months old children in the Sahel Region of Burkina Faso |
title | Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among 6 to 23 months old children in the Sahel Region of Burkina Faso |
title_full | Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among 6 to 23 months old children in the Sahel Region of Burkina Faso |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among 6 to 23 months old children in the Sahel Region of Burkina Faso |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among 6 to 23 months old children in the Sahel Region of Burkina Faso |
title_short | Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among 6 to 23 months old children in the Sahel Region of Burkina Faso |
title_sort | prevalence of wasting and associated factors among 6 to 23 months old children in the sahel region of burkina faso |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7046113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32153704 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.34.164.19886 |
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