Stunting and Associated Factors among School Children in Ombada Province, Sudan
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 2
Abstract
A cross-sectional school based study was conducted to measure the prevalence of stunting and determine the associated factors. A total of 256 children were selected by systematic random sampling and assessed using a questionnaire and anthropometric measurements. The indicators were based on anthropometric indices i.e. height-for-age z-scores (HAZ). The prevalence of stunting among primary school children in Ombada province, Sudan was 13.7%, about 82.9% of them were mild and 17.1% were severe stunting. The study revealed that 14.7% of females were suffering from stunting compared to 12.6% in males (Odds Ratio OR = 1.1983 95% CI = 0.5860 - 2.4506), the prevalence among those who were consuming High protein foods rarely was 13.3% and 14.8% in children who were frequently eating high protein foods with no statistical association (Odds Ratio = 0.8889 and 95% CI = 0.3918 – 2.0168) as well as high carbohydrate foods (Odds Ratio = 0.0935 and 95% CI = 0.0410 – 0.2131), the percentage was 14.1% in children who their mothers education was low and 10.3% in case of high educated mothers (Odds Ratio = 1.4222 and 95% CI = 0.4066 – 4.9750) as shown in table three. As a conclusion, the problem of stunting status among school children was relatively high however most cases were mild stunted children.
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Ebtihal A Elgozoli, Mohammed A Elawad, Faleh S Alyazidi
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