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| Title |
Prevalence of malnutrition among pre-school children in, South-east Nigeria
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| Published in |
Italian Journal of Pediatrics, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13052-014-0075-5 |
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| Authors |
Pius C Manyike, Josephat M Chinawa, Agozie Ubesie, Herbert A Obu, Odutola I Odetunde, Awoere T Chinawa |
| Abstract |
BackgroundMalnutrition can be defined as a state of nutrition where the weight for age, height for age and weight for height indices are below -2 Z-score of the NCHS reference. It has posed a great economic burden to the developing world.ObjectivesThe objective of this study is to assess the prevalence of malnutrition among pre-school children in abakiliki in Ebonyi state of Nigeria.MethodsThis is a cross-sectional studies that assess the prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among children aged 1- 5 years attending nursery and primary schools. Nutritional assessment was done using anthropometry and clinical examination.ResultsA total of 616 children aged one to 5 years were enrolled into this study. Three hundred and sixty-seven (59.6%) were males while 249 (40.4%) were females. Sixty of the 616 children (9.7%) had acute malnutrition based on WHZ-score. Moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) was present in 33 children (5.3%) while 27 (4.4%) had severe acute malnutrition.ConclusionsThe prevalence of global and severe acute malnutrition using z-score is 9.7% and 4.4% respectively while that of stunting is 9.9% with a male preponderance. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 4 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 176 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Postgraduate | 32 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 28 | 16% |
| Researcher | 22 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 22 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 22 | 12% |
| Unknown | 38 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 76 | 43% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 12 | 7% |
| Unknown | 45 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 July 2018.
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