Sociodemographic correlates of nutritional status of under-five children

Singh, Hem; Chaudhary, Varsha; Joshi, Hari Shankar; Upadhyay, Deepak; Singh, Arun K.; Katyal, Rashmi

doi:10.4103/0975-9727.174639

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“…This finding is also supported by many other studies. 14,19,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28] However, Nepali et al reported similar prevalence of wasting in male (9.5%) and female (9.7%) aligning with another study stating no significant association of sex with wasting. 30 The present study comes with its own limitations.…”

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“…Several studies from different countries including Nepal, India, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Bangladesh have also reported significant association between mother's education status and malnutrition. [24][25][26][27][28][29] However, the results of study by Karki et al 20 contradicts this finding. This discrepancy may have resulted due to different geographic regions of the research.…”

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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Malnutrition in Under Five Children in Eastern Nepal: A Hospital Based Study

Shrestha,

Rai,

Agrawal

et al. 2023

J. Nepal Paedtr. Soc.

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Introduction: Malnutrition among children remains one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in the developing countries like Nepal. Multiple interrelated determinants are involved in causing malnutrition that needs to be catered. This study aims to assess the prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among under-five children in eastern Nepal. Methods: This is a hospital-based correctional study. The enrolment occurred between Jan 2018 and Dec 2019 among children who visited nutrition clinic in our hospital. The data analyses were performed using Logistic regression and 95% confidence interval along with p-value. A p-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: A total of 310 children were analyzed for malnutrition. Among them, the prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting was 34.10, 32.45, 17.54 % respectively. Among them, majority of the mother belonged to young age group between 18- 25 years, 216 (69.68%) were females and 120 (38.71%) and Majority of malnutrition fell in the age group of 12 – 23 months. Mother’s age, mother’s education, family size, economic status, child’s age and sex, exclusive breast, ethnicity, mother’s occupation and total family size were found to be significantly associated with malnutrition. Conclusions: This study highlights serious concern of malnutrition among under five years old children in eastern part of Nepal. Multiple hierarchically interrelated determinants associated with child, mother and the social environmental factors were found significant in malnutrition among the children.

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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Malnutrition in Under Five Children in Eastern Nepal: A Hospital Based Study

Shrestha,

Rai,

Agrawal

et al. 2023

J. Nepal Paedtr. Soc.

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“…It is often assumed that when parents have a new child that requires a lot of attention and care, they pay less attention to their older children (Das, S. and Sahoo, H., 2011).Overall its insights that, Underweight, stunting, and wasting are the three basic markers used to identify undernutrition. They are typically associated with recurrent exposure to poor economic situations, inadequate sanitation, and the complex effects of insufficient energy and nutritional intakes and illness (Joshi, H.S. et al, 2016).…”

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Determinants of Child Nutritional Status among Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal

Barman¹,

Chowdhury²

2023

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Malnutrition is the main cause of child mortality in developing nations, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asian countries. This undernutrition status is predominantly higher among primitive tribal (ST) children under 5 years of age. The nutritional status of tribal children is a serious concern in India. For this, there should be intends to examine the prevalence and determinants of primitive tribal children's nutritional status. To investigate the effect of household, child’s & maternal characteristics on biological children under 5 years of age. The study aims to find out the association between some selected determinants on scheduled tribe child’s nutritional status. The study used some selected variable of scheduled tribe mothers, household characteristics and their children anthropometric indices from DHS datasets of India, which was published by the NFHS datasets of India. In this study People datasets and Children (Under 5 years of age) of interviewed women file datasets of NFHS-IV & V is taken. The datasets of West Bengal, ST mothers, and their child into consideration as per the research interest. Then to analyze the determinants of ST children (U5 age) nutritional status, some determinant factors are taken from mothers, children and household characteristics. Children’s stunting, wasting and underweight as dependent variable and the mothers, child’s and household’s characteristics as independent variable. The statistical analysis was done by using Pearson Chi square test used to analyze the association between dependent and independent variables. The study results shows that the mother’s educational status, child’s age, birth order, size of child at birth, type of residence had significant associations with stunting. Mother's anemia status and mother age had significant associations with wasting. Mother education, currently breastfeeding, child age, sex of the child, birth order, size of child at birth, type of residence, wealth, toilet facility, and cooking fuel shows a significant association with underweight. The results found that many determinant factors had a significant role among ST children's (U5 age) nutritional status. Thus, the findings will help to achieve tentative resource allocation, and utilization through various programs and policies to improve the ST children (U5 age) nutritional status. There is a need to take a multisectoral and multidimensional approach to develop for those primitive tribal children.

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“…Nutrition is one potential mediator. Singh et al, in their cross-sectional analysis of 450 children <5 years old in India, found that malnutrition was correlated with lower SES 20 . Research has shown not only that people with lower SES have worse nutrition, but also that, within the United States, higher SES is correlated with increased fruit and vegetable intake, which is a critical component of a well-balanced diet 21 .…”

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Socioeconomic Status Affects Postoperative Time to Union in Pediatric Patients with a Surgically Treated Fracture

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Background: Fractures account for 10% to 25% of all pediatric injuries, and surgical treatment is common. In such cases, postoperative healing can be affected by a number of factors, including those related to socioeconomic status (SES). The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between time to fracture union and SES, which was measured with use of the median household income (MHI) and Child Opportunity Index (COI). Methods: A retrospective review was conducted of pediatric patients with a long-bone fracture that had been surgically treated at a Level-I pediatric trauma center between January 2010 and June 2020. Demographic and relevant medical data were collected. Patients were sorted into union and nonunion groups. The ZIP code of each patient was collected and the MHI and COI of that ZIP code were identified. Income brackets were created in increments of $10,000 ranging from $20,000 to $100,000, with an additional category of >$100,000, and patients were sorted into these groups according to MHI. Comparisons among the income groups and among the union status groups were conducted for each of the collected variables. A multiple regression analysis was utilized to determine the independent effect of each variable on time to union. Results: A total of 395 patients were included in the final sample, of whom 51% identified as Hispanic. Patients in the union group had a higher mean COI and MHI. Nonunion occurred in only 8 patients. Patients who achieved fracture union in ≤4 months had a significantly higher mean COI and MHI. When controlling for other demographic variables, the time to union increased by a mean of 9.6 days for every $10,000 decrease in MHI and increased by a mean of 6.8 days for every 10-unit decrease in the COI. Conclusions: The present study is the first, to our knowledge, to investigate the relationship between SES and time to fracture union in pediatric patients. When controlling for other demographic factors, we found a significant relationship between SES and time to union in pediatric patients with a surgically treated fracture. Further investigations of the relationship between SES and time to union in pediatric patients are needed to determine potential mechanisms for this relationship. Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level III. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.

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Sociodemographic correlates of nutritional status of under-five children

Cited by 6 publications

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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Malnutrition in Under Five Children in Eastern Nepal: A Hospital Based Study

Prevalence and Associated Factors of Malnutrition in Under Five Children in Eastern Nepal: A Hospital Based Study

Determinants of Child Nutritional Status among Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal

Socioeconomic Status Affects Postoperative Time to Union in Pediatric Patients with a Surgically Treated Fracture

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