Factors associated with nutritional status among young children in St. Vincent

Greiner, Ted; Latham, Michael C.

doi:10.1080/03670244.1981.9990630

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“…Many other studies have also found girls to be worse off nutritionally than boys [ Longer duration of breast-feeding was positively associated with higher weight for age. This was also the case in St. Vincent [27]. Others, however, have reported a negative association between these variables [13,28].…”

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“…Others have found no significant association between birth order and nutritional status [10,12,25] and between age of child and nutritional status [21]. In contrast, some investigators have noted a negative association between age of child and weight for age [9,11,12,18,27]. Furthermore, in one study [21], birth order was negatively correlated with nutritional status.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Determinants of Childhood Malnutrition in Jamaica

Melville¹,

Williams²,

Francis³

et al. 1988

Food Nutr Bull

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confidence: 66%

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confidence: 99%

Determinants of Childhood Malnutrition in Jamaica

Melville¹,

Williams²,

Francis³

et al. 1988

Food Nutr Bull

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“…Income, or socio-economic status, is related to nutritional status in the several studies that have examined this relation, although whether the relation is linear is not so clear (Valverde et al, 1981;Greiner and Latham, 1981). For the population studied here, a significant association between income and nutritional status was observed, but only in the upper half of the income distribution.…”

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Identifying nutritional considerations in planning a rural development project in N. Haiti

Mason

Ahlers

Henderson

et al. 1985

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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In testing methods for introducing nutritional considerations into project planning, a combined agro/economic and nutrition survey was carried out on a representative sample of 261 households from a proposed project area in north Haiti. This paper reports results of analyses to determine targetting priorities and examine whether income generation is likely to induce improvement in nutrition. It also studied differences in associations between income source (farm, off-farm, subsistence, major crops grown) and nutritional status. Targetting more remote areas was shown to be important. Income was associated with nutritional status (height-for-age) in the upper half of the income distribution, but not the lower half. Income from any of the sources examined had the same relation with nutritional status. One conclusion was that targetting income-generating project activities to remoter areas and small-landholders was worthwhile and could, in the long-run, improve nutrition after a threshold level of income was reached.

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“…Inappropriately breastfed have poor health outcomes (Mohieldin, 2010). Nutrition Impact of maternal nutritional knowledge with regards to behaviour and attitude of mothers towards child nutrition is barely investigated (Greiner & Latham, 1981).…”

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Mothers/Caregivers Age and Family Structure Predicted Knowledge on Recommended Nutrition Practices for Children under 5 Years

Setorglo

Klevor²,

Gorleku³

et al. 2019

RHS

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Introduction:There are recommendations regarding infant and young child feeding and when followed children's growth are optimum. These feeding practices are age definitive, starting from exclusive breastfeeding, to the transition of the child to complementary foods.Objective: The objective of this study was to assess factors that determine nutritional knowledge among mothers/caretaker regarding children under five years. Methods:A cross sectional study design employing quantitative methods was chosen for this study. The study population comprised 285 caregivers and their children aged of 6 and 59 months. Respondents were chosen randomly from four hard-to-reach communities and two peri-urban communities within three sub-municipalities, who lived in and accessed child welfare services during the study period.Face-to-face interviews were used to collect background and nutritional knowledge data from the respondents. Maternal/caretaker knowledge on recommended nutritional practice was split into two with scores were greater than 7 out of the 13 knowledge items was considered as good. STATA version Results: The average age of the children under 5 years and their mothers/caretakers were 32 months and 29 years respectively. About 73% had nuclear family structure. Results of Chi square and Fisher's exact tests for association indicated that, mother's/caretaker's age (p<0.001), family structure (p=0.010) and access to media information (p<0.001) were significantly associated with mother's good nutritional knowledge on recommended practices. Mothers/caretakers age (OR=0.17; family structure (OR=0.30;) predicted mothers nutritional knowledge. Conclusions:Maternal/caretaker factors predicted nutritional knowledge when feeding a child in both peri-urban and rural areas. These factors should be considered when promoting child nutrition.

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Factors associated with nutritional status among young children in St. Vincent

Cited by 16 publications

References 26 publications

Determinants of Childhood Malnutrition in Jamaica

Determinants of Childhood Malnutrition in Jamaica

Identifying nutritional considerations in planning a rural development project in N. Haiti

Mothers/Caregivers Age and Family Structure Predicted Knowledge on Recommended Nutrition Practices for Children under 5 Years

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