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Does Mothers' Awareness of Health and Nutrition Matter? A Case Study of Child Malnutrition in Marginalized Rural Community of Punjab, Pakistan

Maternal nutritional awareness might reduce the risk of malnutrition in children. This study assesses the impact of mothers' nutritional and health awareness (MNHA) on the nutritional status of pre-school children in rural South Punjab. Using a proportionate purposive simple random sampling tec...

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Autores principales: Shahid, Muhammad, Cao, Yang, Ahmed, Farooq, Raza, Saqlain, Guo, Jing, Malik, Najma Iqbal, Rauf, Umara, Qureshi, Madeeha Gohar, Saheed, Rafit, Maryam, Rohma
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8863129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35211439
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.792164
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author Shahid, Muhammad
Cao, Yang
Ahmed, Farooq
Raza, Saqlain
Guo, Jing
Malik, Najma Iqbal
Rauf, Umara
Qureshi, Madeeha Gohar
Saheed, Rafit
Maryam, Rohma
author_facet Shahid, Muhammad
Cao, Yang
Ahmed, Farooq
Raza, Saqlain
Guo, Jing
Malik, Najma Iqbal
Rauf, Umara
Qureshi, Madeeha Gohar
Saheed, Rafit
Maryam, Rohma
author_sort Shahid, Muhammad
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description Maternal nutritional awareness might reduce the risk of malnutrition in children. This study assesses the impact of mothers' nutritional and health awareness (MNHA) on the nutritional status of pre-school children in rural South Punjab. Using a proportionate purposive simple random sampling technique we collect data with the help of a self-administered questionnaire on height, age, the weight of children, and socio-economic profile from 384 rural households in one of the marginalized districts of Punjab. The study applied the binary logistic regression model to compute the probability of malnutrition. The results indicate that malnutrition was high in the district (the prevalence rate for underweight is 46.1%, for stunting 34.83%, and for wasting is 15.49%). Around 91.84% of malnourished children belonged to the low MNHA category compared to medium (5.61%) and high (2.55%) MNHA categories. The results further show that the prevalence of moderate and severe stunting, wasting, and underweight in low MNHA categories was much higher with large differences compared to both medium and high MNHA categories. The binary logistic regression results depict that, across the household deprivation index (HDS), the odds of a child becoming malnourished were lower in households HDS-2 category (OR = 0.02, 95% CI: 0.01–0.89), and odds were also lower in households HDS-3 category (OR = 0.001, 95% CI: 0.001–0.16). Similarly, across the scores of MNHA index, the odds of malnutrition were lower among the children of those mothers who had medium MNHA (OR = 0.04, 95% CI: 0.002–1.24), and also the probability of child malnutrition was lower among the children of mothers who had high MNHA (OR = 0.008, 95% CI: 0.002–0.29). The study urges that well-resourced, targeted, and coordinated health and nutritional education and awareness programs are required to tackle malnutrition.
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spelling pubmed-88631292022-02-23 Does Mothers' Awareness of Health and Nutrition Matter? A Case Study of Child Malnutrition in Marginalized Rural Community of Punjab, Pakistan Shahid, Muhammad Cao, Yang Ahmed, Farooq Raza, Saqlain Guo, Jing Malik, Najma Iqbal Rauf, Umara Qureshi, Madeeha Gohar Saheed, Rafit Maryam, Rohma Front Public Health Public Health Maternal nutritional awareness might reduce the risk of malnutrition in children. This study assesses the impact of mothers' nutritional and health awareness (MNHA) on the nutritional status of pre-school children in rural South Punjab. Using a proportionate purposive simple random sampling technique we collect data with the help of a self-administered questionnaire on height, age, the weight of children, and socio-economic profile from 384 rural households in one of the marginalized districts of Punjab. The study applied the binary logistic regression model to compute the probability of malnutrition. The results indicate that malnutrition was high in the district (the prevalence rate for underweight is 46.1%, for stunting 34.83%, and for wasting is 15.49%). Around 91.84% of malnourished children belonged to the low MNHA category compared to medium (5.61%) and high (2.55%) MNHA categories. The results further show that the prevalence of moderate and severe stunting, wasting, and underweight in low MNHA categories was much higher with large differences compared to both medium and high MNHA categories. The binary logistic regression results depict that, across the household deprivation index (HDS), the odds of a child becoming malnourished were lower in households HDS-2 category (OR = 0.02, 95% CI: 0.01–0.89), and odds were also lower in households HDS-3 category (OR = 0.001, 95% CI: 0.001–0.16). Similarly, across the scores of MNHA index, the odds of malnutrition were lower among the children of those mothers who had medium MNHA (OR = 0.04, 95% CI: 0.002–1.24), and also the probability of child malnutrition was lower among the children of mothers who had high MNHA (OR = 0.008, 95% CI: 0.002–0.29). The study urges that well-resourced, targeted, and coordinated health and nutritional education and awareness programs are required to tackle malnutrition. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8863129/ /pubmed/35211439 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.792164 Text en Copyright © 2022 Shahid, Cao, Ahmed, Raza, Guo, Malik, Rauf, Qureshi, Saheed and Maryam. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Public Health
Shahid, Muhammad
Cao, Yang
Ahmed, Farooq
Raza, Saqlain
Guo, Jing
Malik, Najma Iqbal
Rauf, Umara
Qureshi, Madeeha Gohar
Saheed, Rafit
Maryam, Rohma
Does Mothers' Awareness of Health and Nutrition Matter? A Case Study of Child Malnutrition in Marginalized Rural Community of Punjab, Pakistan
title Does Mothers' Awareness of Health and Nutrition Matter? A Case Study of Child Malnutrition in Marginalized Rural Community of Punjab, Pakistan
title_full Does Mothers' Awareness of Health and Nutrition Matter? A Case Study of Child Malnutrition in Marginalized Rural Community of Punjab, Pakistan
title_fullStr Does Mothers' Awareness of Health and Nutrition Matter? A Case Study of Child Malnutrition in Marginalized Rural Community of Punjab, Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed Does Mothers' Awareness of Health and Nutrition Matter? A Case Study of Child Malnutrition in Marginalized Rural Community of Punjab, Pakistan
title_short Does Mothers' Awareness of Health and Nutrition Matter? A Case Study of Child Malnutrition in Marginalized Rural Community of Punjab, Pakistan
title_sort does mothers' awareness of health and nutrition matter? a case study of child malnutrition in marginalized rural community of punjab, pakistan
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8863129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35211439
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.792164
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