Failure to Thrive and its Risk Factors in 0-24 Months Children in Bojnurd City of Iran during 2008-2013

Abstract

Background: Failure to thrive (FTT) is a global problem and one of the most common health problems in childhood that involves many other social, economic, and cultural factors. Considering the adverse effects of FTT in the future of children, we studied FTT and its related factor in children under the age of 2 years in Bojnurd (the capital city of North Khorasan province, Iran).
 Methods: This study was a Retrospective cohort study on 1000 health records, born in 2008-2013. Stratified sampling method was applied and the data were collected using a checklist in the health centers. Finally, data were analyzed using Chi-square, Multiple logistic regression, and independent t-test in SPSS19 software. Significant level was set at 5%.
 Results: Incidence of FTT was calculated as 443 children (44.3%) in the children's first two years of life. A significant relationship was observed between FTT in children and head circumference disorders at birth (p=0.001), maternal age at delivery (p=0.01), mother's education level (OR=0.4 CI95% [0.2-0.8] p=0.012), type of delivery (OR=0.5 CI95% [0.4-0.7] p<0.001), unspecified gestational age (OR=3.6 CI95% [1.3-10.08 p=0.015]), and pregnancy under the age of 18 (OR=2.4 CI95% [1.1-5.3] p=0.02). 
 Conclusion: Considering the high incidence of FTT in children, increasing awareness about timely feeding, promoting households' health, preventing and controlling infectious diseases should be improved

Failure to thrive and it's Risk factors among children under 5 years old in Al-Batool Teaching Hospital in Baquba city

“…starting from the first year and reaching peak through the second year of life. this study agreed with the study [27] another study showed a significant correlation between age groups and the incidenc of failure to thrive, [17] which showed that failure to thrive was significant in children from 12-23 months. a study [22,24], said that there was a significant correlation between age groups and the incidence of failure to thrive were it was significant in less than 12 months infants.…”

“…Considering gender, in this study there was no significant correlation between gender and the incidenc of failure to thrive, which agreed with the studies [22] , [11], [14] , [27].…”

“…In this study there was a significant correlation between failure to thrive and mother educational level which agreed with the studies [17], [22], [14] , [4] and [27]while study [13] and [9] showed that there was no significant correlation between failure to thrive and mother educational level.…”

“…In this study there was significant correlation between failure to thrive and the type of feeding which agreed with the study by [9] ,while other study showed that children with breastfeeding were less likely to develop failure to thrive [4].while a studies [27] showed that there was no significant correlation between failure to thrive and the type of feeding.…”