Risk factors for undernutrition in under-five children living in a migrant populated area of South Delhi

Introduction: Undernutrition is continuing to be a major public health problem in India. Moreover, India houses more than 30% of the world's stunted children aged under 5 years. There was a paucity of a community-based cross-sectional study on the nutrition of children aged under 5 years in urb...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of family medicine and primary care 2020-04, Vol.9 (4), p.2022-2027
Main Authors: Dabar, Deepti, Yadav, Vikas, Goel, Akhil, Mangal, Abha, Prasad, Pankaj, Singh, Mahendra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
delhi
india
Nutrition
Original
prevalence
Public health
Public health movements
stunting
undernutrition
underweight
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Introduction: Undernutrition is continuing to be a major public health problem in India. Moreover, India houses more than 30% of the world's stunted children aged under 5 years. There was a paucity of a community-based cross-sectional study on the nutrition of children aged under 5 years in urban Delhi. Therefore, we conducted this study to assess the prevalence of undernutrition and their associated factors in children aged under 5 years in urban South Delhi. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional community-based study was conducted in the Mehrauli area of South Delhi with a semi-structured questionnaire. Systematic random sampling without replacement was implemented. Informed written consent was sought from the parents of participants. Questions were asked regarding demography and sociocultural factors of the participants. Anthropometry measurements were obtained. Underweight and stunting were defined using WHO child growth standards 2006. Results: A total of 520 participants in 695 houses were contacted and interviewed. Prevalence of underweight and stunting were 34.0% and 42.6%, respectively. Sociocultural factors, associated with underweight and stunting, found in current study were fathers' education (with both, P value < 0.05), mothers' education (with both, P value < 0.05), poverty status (with both, P value
ISSN:2249-4863
2278-7135
DOI:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1185_19