Factors Associated with Acute Malnutrition among Children Admitted to a Diarrhoea Treatment Facility in Bangladesh

Fuchs, Connor; Sultana, Tania; Ahmed, Tahmeed; Hossain, Murad

doi:10.1155/2014/267806

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“…On the contrary, the children who did not receive vaccines were mostly from the rural area, were having poorer socio-economic position, and were not more exposed to media than the families of their counterparts. This finding is consistent with one study conducted in Bangladesh (Fuchs, Sultana, Ahmed, & Iqbal Hossain, 2014).…”

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Prevalence and correlates of the composite index of anthropometric failure among children under 5 years old in Bangladesh

Islam

Biswas

2019

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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The prevalence of stunting, wasting, and underweight are reported separately. However, the data of the multiple anthropometric failures combinations of these conventional indicators are scant. This study attempted to estimate the overall burden of undernutrition among children under 5 years old, using the composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF), and to explore the correlates. The study used secondary data from the Bangladesh demographic and health surveys (BDHS), undertaken in 2014. CIAF provides an overall prevalence of undernutrition, which gives six mutually exclusive anthropometric measurements of height‐for‐ age, height‐for‐weight, and weight‐for‐age. Multivariable logistic regression was used to explore the correlates of CIAF. The overall prevalence of undernutrition using the CIAF was 48.3% (95% CI [47.1%, 49.5%]) among the children under 5 years old. The prevalence of anthropometric failure due to a combination of both stunting and underweight was 18.2%, wasting and underweight was 5.5%, and wasting, underweight, and stunting was 5.7%. The odds of CIAF were higher among young maternal age, having the poorest socio‐economic status, living in rural areas, higher order of birth, and received no vaccination compared with other counterparts. In Bangladesh, one out of two children has undernutrition, which is preventing the potential of the millions of children. Mothers who gave birth before age 20 living in the rural areas with belonging to lower socio‐economic status and whose children had a higher order of birth and receive no vaccination were observed as the main determinants of undernutrition. Nutrition sensitive interventions along with social protection programmes are crucial to deal the underlying causes of undernutrition.

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Prevalence and correlates of the composite index of anthropometric failure among children under 5 years old in Bangladesh

Islam

Biswas

2019

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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“…As such many children are subjected to an imbalanced intake of food which leads to malnutrition.This was consistent with a similar study done in Bangladesh [7]. Therefore, there is need of coming up with programmes to educate people on how to prevent diarrhea such as proper handling of food and use of Oral Rehydration Salt Therapy, the importance of acquiring employment before considering raising children ,self-empowerment together with creating more job opportunities and sensitization on the importance of taking a balanced diet.…”

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Determination of risk factors associated with malnutrition among children under the age of five: a case control study at Arthur Davison children’s hospital in Ndola, Zambia

Mhango¹,

Siziya²,

Mwanakasale³

2017

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Background: Malnutrition is one of the conditions that contribute to high mortality rate among children under the age of five. Although risk factors for malnutrition are well known ,they tend to vary from population to population. The main objective of this study was to establish risk factors associated with malnutrition among children under the age of five presenting at Arthur Davison Children's Hospital in Ndola, Zambia. Method: A case-control study was conducted in the protein calorie malnutrition unit and other units at Arthur Davison Children's Hospital in Ndola, Zambia from October 2016 to may 2017.Cases were children who were moderately or severely malnourished with or without oedema with weight for height z-score of less than -2 Standard deviation from the median of WHO reference. Controls were children with z-score of greater than -2 Standard deviation. Results: A total of 144 children with 72 cases and 72 controls participated in the study. Independent risk factors which were significantly associated with malnutrition after adjusting for confounders were history of diarrhea (OR=4.20, 95% CI[1.77,9.95], children of fathers who were out of employment (OR= 5.28,95% CI[1.45,19.14]) ,and lack of a balanced diet (OR=0.11,95% CI[ 0.04,0.28]).Conclusion: Diarrhea illnesses, low social-economic status and lack of balanced diet were identified as risk factors significantly associated with malnutrition among children under the age of five presenting at Arthur Davison Children's Hospital, Zambia. As such Mortality rate due to malnutrition may be reduced by coming up with programmes to create more job opportunities, intensive measures to combat diarrhea illnesses such as use of Oral Rehydration Therapy and educating people on how to take a balanced diet.

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“…exclusive breastfeeding or low quantity and quality of complementary food; infection or diseases; poor food security; lack of a sanitary environment, including access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene services (Chalabi 2013;Fuchs et al 2014;Rahman 2016). These factors are strongly related to each other and have a cyclical relationship with wasting.…”

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Risk factors associated with wasting among children aged 6 to 24 months old in Gaza strip

Yassin

Taha

Jamiea

2016

IJM

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Factors Associated with Acute Malnutrition among Children Admitted to a Diarrhoea Treatment Facility in Bangladesh

Cited by 34 publications

References 16 publications

Prevalence and correlates of the composite index of anthropometric failure among children under 5 years old in Bangladesh

Prevalence and correlates of the composite index of anthropometric failure among children under 5 years old in Bangladesh

Determination of risk factors associated with malnutrition among children under the age of five: a case control study at Arthur Davison children’s hospital in Ndola, Zambia

Risk factors associated with wasting among children aged 6 to 24 months old in Gaza strip

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