Prevalence of malnutrition among under-fives in Okrika Town, Nigeria
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2019, Vol 18, Issue 1
Abstract
Malnutrition is a public health problem in developing countries and an underlying factor in one-thir d of the 6.6 million global under-five deaths recorded in 2012. Malnutrition is still prevalent in Nigeria as, 35.8 % and 10% of Nigerian under-fives were stunted and wasted respectively in 2011. The study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of malnutrition among under-fives in Okrika Town in South-South region of Nigeria. It was a cross sectional descriptive study that obtained data on socio-demographics and nutritional history from the caregivers of 410 children selected by multistage random sampling. Their measured weights and heigh ts were used to calculate their WAZ, HAZ and WHZ anthropometric indices. Children with WAZ, HAZ and WH Z < -2SD were classified as underweight, stunted and wasted respectively and overweight if WHZ was > +2SD The 410 children were aged 0-59 months. Forty three (10.5%) were underweight, 56 (13.6%) stunted, 36 (8.8% ) wasted and 6 (1.5%) overweight. There were no statistically significant differences in the prevalence of under weight, stunting and wasting among males and female under-fives, (p> 0.05). Conclusion: Stunting was the most prevalent and overweight least prevalent forms of malnutrition among under -fives in Okrika Town.
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Okari TG, Nte AR, Frank-Briggs AI
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