Thinness among primary school children of the migrated Santals of Arambag, West Bengal, India

Mandal, Gopal Chandra; Bose, Kaushık

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“…A very high prevalence of thinness has been documented (62.0%) among them (Figure 1). Existing studies have consistently reported very high prevalence of thinness among Indian children and here the studies of Biswas et al [22] among Bengalee children (51%), Das and Bose [25] among Santal children (56%), Mandal and Bose [26] also among Santal children (76%), Chakraborty and Bose [27] among Bengalee children (62%), Bisai and Manna [23] among urban children (47%), Mandal et al [21] among Bengalee children (85%) and Bisai et al [24] among Kora-Mudi children (67%) are mentionable. Evidently, the problem of thinness is persistent transversely across Indian populations with consistent proportions of children, especially pre-school children being affected.…”

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“…It has also been observed that high prevalence of thinness is a major nutritional problem among both tribal and non-tribal pre-school children of the country. It has been estimated that more than half of the children in the age group of below 5 years remained nutritionally affected by thinness [22,24,[26][27][28] and they require immediate attention in terms of nutritional interventions. A greater prevalence of thinness indicates current chronic energy deficiency and early detection and correction of the current energy deficit might reduce the risk of infections and related co-morbidities and also enable the children to continue in their physical growth trajectories [3,20].…”

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“…Prior to this proposal of Cole et al [19], there were no suitable cut-off points for thinness that would have encouraged direct comparisons of worldwide trends in thinness among children and adolescents and provide a classification for the purposes of public health. Recently a number of studies have utilized these cut-offs to report the magnitude of thinness among Indian children [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28].…”

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“…It has now been opined that education of parents, especially of the mother, has emerged as an important determinant of health and survivability of children [30,31]. Another important contributing factor is occupation, where studies have shown a negative association between nature of parental occupation and child survival in the developing countries [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31].…”

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Effects of some socio-economic, demographic and life style factors on the prevalence of thinness among pre-school children

Tigga

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Mondal

2022

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Background: Undernutrition is generally considered to be a major public health issue and is a principal cause of ill-health in many of the developing countries such as India. It increases the incidence of premature mortalities, morbidities and causes long-lasting physiological effects among children. Aims and objectives: The present cross-sectional study determines the prevalence of thinness [low Body Mass Index (BMI)-for-age] among pre-school children. It also studies the effects of certain socio-economic, socio-demographic and lifestyle variables on thinness. Subjects and Methods: The study was conducted among 1163 children (boys: 546; girls: 617) aged 2-5 years. All the children were covered by the Integrated Child Developed Scheme (ICDS) of the Government of India and were the beneficiaries of 24 ICDS centers located in Matigara block of Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India. Data was collected by visiting both the ICDS centers and the households of the children. Height and weight of the children were measured and BMI (weight/height2, kg/m2) was calculated. The new international BMI-based cut-off points of Cole et al. (2007) were utilized to determine the prevalence of thinness. Parents of the children were interviewed for data on socio-economic, sociodemographic and lifestyle variables. The data was statistically analyzed using SPSS (Version 17.0). The statistical tests performed were chi-square analysis, ANOVA and multinomial logistic regression. Results: The overall mean BMI among the boys and girls were 14.42 ±1.73 kg/m. and 13.91 ±1.64 kg/m., respectively (p<0.05). The sex-specific prevalence of thinness was significantly greater among girls (67.91%) than boys (55.12%) (p<0.05). The age-specific overall thinness was observed to be the greater in case of boys and girls aged 5 years (57.95% and 71.49%). Results of the multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that sex, age, study area, father’s occupation and toilet facility exhibited significant effects on the grades of thinness (p<0.05). Conclusion: Very high prevalence of thinness was present among the pre-school children and this was indicative of major nutritional deprivation. Appropriate nutritional intervention and proper monitoring of the ongoing intervention programmes are necessary to ameliorate their existing nutritional status among children.

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“…15 The underfed still outnumbered in the developing world among Asian, African and Latin American populations. 16 In spite of the economic development in that region, undernutrition remains an important public problem in many Asian countries.…”

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Very High Prevalence of Thinness Among Rural Bengalee Preschool Children of Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) Scheme of Sagar Island, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

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Bose³

2017

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The double burden of malnutrition in a rural health and demographic surveillance system site in South Africa: a study of primary schoolchildren and their mothers

Modjadji

Madiba

2019

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Background: In South Africa, the occurrence of the double burden of malnutrition is on the rise at a household level predisposing children and their mothers to negative health outcomes. However, few studies have been conducted at a household level. Therefore, we studied a double burden of malnutrition using child-mother pairs in a rural setting. Methods: A cross-sectional quantitative survey was conducted among 508 child-mother pairs selected from primary schools using a multistage sampling in a rural Dikgale Health and Demographic Site in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Anthropometric measurements of children and mothers, and socio-demographic data were collected. WHO AnthroPlus was used to generate body-mass-index z-scores of children and the BMI was used to indicate overweight and obesity among the mothers. Mann Whitney test was used to compare the means of variables between sexes and age groups, while the prevalence of thinness and overweight/obesity were compared using a chi-square. Multivariate logistic regression with a stepwise backward elimination procedure, controlling for confounding, was used to determine the association between the thinness and overweight/obesity and the covariates. Results: Twenty five percent (25%) of the children were thin, 4% were overweight and 1% obese, while mothers were overweight (27.4%) and 42.3% obesity (42.3%) were observed among the mothers. The odds of being thin were higher in boys than in girls (AOR = 1.53, 95%CI: 1.01-2.35). Overweight/obese mothers were more likely to have thin children (AOR = 1.48, 95% CI: 1.01-2.18) and less likely to have overweight/obese children (AOR = 0.18, 95%CI: 0.07-0.46). Conclusion: A double burden of malnutrition was observed on a household level with thinness among children and overweight/obesity among mothers. A need to address the dual problems of undernutrition and rapidly rising trends of overweight/obesity cannot be overemphasized .

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Thinness among primary school children of the migrated Santals of Arambag, West Bengal, India

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Effects of some socio-economic, demographic and life style factors on the prevalence of thinness among pre-school children

Effects of some socio-economic, demographic and life style factors on the prevalence of thinness among pre-school children

Very High Prevalence of Thinness Among Rural Bengalee Preschool Children of Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) Scheme of Sagar Island, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

The double burden of malnutrition in a rural health and demographic surveillance system site in South Africa: a study of primary schoolchildren and their mothers

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