Nutritional status and family dietary pattern among slum dwelling geriatric population in an area of Burdwan Municipality, West Bengal.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2017, Vol 17, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Elderly population is vulnerable for malnutrition and their nutritional status is usually associated with family dietary pattern. Slum dwellers being disadvantaged might be at more risk and needs to be assessed for appropriate interventions. Objectives: To determine nutritional status among geriatric population residing in slum area of a municipality and to find out association between nutritional status and family dietary pattern. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted during June - November 2016 in slums of a ward of Burdwan Municipality. Sample size was 132 considering 19.5% prevalence of malnutrition (as revealed by a study), 95% confidence interval, 5% level of significance, 10% absolute error and design effect of 2 for multistage sampling. Nutritional status was assessed with Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) tool for elderly and family dietary pattern was assessed with 24 hours recall method. MNA tool categorizes nutritional status as – malnutrition, nutrition at risk and normal nutrition. Ethical approval was obtained from institutional ethics committee of Burdwan Medical College, West Bengal. Results: Overall 31.8% subjects were malnourished and 53% were with nutrition at risk. 15.2% were of normal nutrition. Chi-square test revealed that nutritional status was significantly associated with gender (p=0.024), literacy of elderly (p=0.015) and socio-economic status (p=0.002). Significantly associated dietary factors were percentage of energy contribution from protein (p=0.047) and fat (p=0.034); intake of green leafy vegetables (p=0.002) and fats & oil (p=0.03) in their usual diet. Conclusion: Geriatric malnutrition is alarmingly high among slum dwellers of Burdwan municipality. Focused attention and interventions are needed specially addressing the associated factors
Authors and Affiliations
Puspendu Biswas, Amitava Chakraborty2 ,, Md. Samsuzzaman3, Raston Mondal4 ,, Tridibes Bhattacharya5, Dilip Kumar Das
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