Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study

Stunting is a well-established child-health indicator of chronic malnutrition, which reliably gives a picture of the past nutritional history and the prevailing environmental and socioeconomic circumstances. To investigate the prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school...

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Published in:PloS one 2021-04, Vol.16 (4), p.e0248108
Main Authors: Bantie, Getasew Mulat, Aynie, Amare Alamirew, Akenew, Kidist Hailu, Belete, Mahlet Tilahun, Tena, Eyerusalem Teshome, Gebretsadik, Genet Gebreselasie, Tsegaw, Aynalem Nebebe, Woldemariam, Tigist Birru, Woya, Ashenafi Abate, Melese, Amare Alemu, Ayalew, Agumas Fentahun, Dessie, Getenet
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Language:English
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Age
Biology and Life Sciences
Children
Children & youth
Complications and side effects
Computer programs
Cross-sectional studies
Data analysis
Data collection
Demographic aspects
Diet
Drafting software
Editing
Education
Elementary schools
Food security
Funding
Growth disorders
Health sciences
Low income groups
Malnutrition in children
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mental development
Methodology
Nurses
Nursing
Nutrition
Nutritional aspects
People and Places
Physiological aspects
Population
Public health
Questionnaires
Random sampling
Reviews
Risk factors
Sample size
Sampling methods
Sampling techniques
Schools
Social Sciences
Software
Statistical analysis
Statistical methods
Statistical sampling
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Summary:Stunting is a well-established child-health indicator of chronic malnutrition, which reliably gives a picture of the past nutritional history and the prevailing environmental and socioeconomic circumstances. To investigate the prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school children of the Bahir Dar city. A cross-sectional study was carried out from March to June 2019. Data were coded and entered into the Epi-Data and exported to SPSS version 23 software. The pupil was stunted if the height- for-age was ≤ -2 SDs from the median growth standards according to the WHO. A descriptive summary was computed using frequency, percent, mean, median and standard deviation. A simple logistic regression model was fitted to identify associated factors between the independent variables and the dependent variable at a 95% confidence interval (CI) and p-value
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0248108