Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study.
<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the prevalence of...
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| author | Getasew Mulat Bantie Amare Alamirew Aynie Kidist Hailu Akenew Mahlet Tilahun Belete Eyerusalem Teshome Tena Genet Gebreselasie Gebretsadik Aynalem Nebebe Tsegaw Tigist Birru Woldemariam Ashenafi Abate Woya Amare Alemu Melese Agumas Fentahun Ayalew Getenet Dessie |
| author_facet | Getasew Mulat Bantie Amare Alamirew Aynie Kidist Hailu Akenew Mahlet Tilahun Belete Eyerusalem Teshome Tena Genet Gebreselasie Gebretsadik Aynalem Nebebe Tsegaw Tigist Birru Woldemariam Ashenafi Abate Woya Amare Alemu Melese Agumas Fentahun Ayalew Getenet Dessie |
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| description | <h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school children of the Bahir Dar city.<h4>Method</h4>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 <0.05.<h4>Results</h4>370 primary school pupils were included in the study with the mean age of 10.15 (± 2.23 SD) years. 51.6% of the pupils were females. The total prevalence of stunting was 15.13% (95%CI; 11%, 19%). The burden of stunting was higher in the age group of 11 years and older. Pupil's age older than 11 years (AOR = 15. 6; 95%CI; 3.31, 73.45; p-value < 0. 001) and male sex (AOR = 7. 07; 95%CI: 2.51, 19.89; p-value < 0. 0002) were significantly associated with stunting.<h4>Conclusion</h4>The prevalence of stunting was relatively lower than the regional estimated stunting level. Older age and male sex were significantly associated with stunting. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ac15362d5b29477794c53cc1dbf5f2562025-03-03T05:34:59ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-01164e024810810.1371/journal.pone.0248108Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study.Getasew Mulat BantieAmare Alamirew AynieKidist Hailu AkenewMahlet Tilahun BeleteEyerusalem Teshome TenaGenet Gebreselasie GebretsadikAynalem Nebebe TsegawTigist Birru WoldemariamAshenafi Abate WoyaAmare Alemu MeleseAgumas Fentahun AyalewGetenet Dessie<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school children of the Bahir Dar city.<h4>Method</h4>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 <0.05.<h4>Results</h4>370 primary school pupils were included in the study with the mean age of 10.15 (± 2.23 SD) years. 51.6% of the pupils were females. The total prevalence of stunting was 15.13% (95%CI; 11%, 19%). The burden of stunting was higher in the age group of 11 years and older. Pupil's age older than 11 years (AOR = 15. 6; 95%CI; 3.31, 73.45; p-value < 0. 001) and male sex (AOR = 7. 07; 95%CI: 2.51, 19.89; p-value < 0. 0002) were significantly associated with stunting.<h4>Conclusion</h4>The prevalence of stunting was relatively lower than the regional estimated stunting level. Older age and male sex were significantly associated with stunting.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248108&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Getasew Mulat Bantie Amare Alamirew Aynie Kidist Hailu Akenew Mahlet Tilahun Belete Eyerusalem Teshome Tena Genet Gebreselasie Gebretsadik Aynalem Nebebe Tsegaw Tigist Birru Woldemariam Ashenafi Abate Woya Amare Alemu Melese Agumas Fentahun Ayalew Getenet Dessie Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE |
| title | Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study. |
| title_full | Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study. |
| title_fullStr | Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study. |
| title_short | Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study. |
| title_sort | prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of bahir dar city ethiopia school based cross sectional study |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248108&type=printable |
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