Association between depressive symptoms of mothers and eating behaviors of school-going children in Urban Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study
Abstract Objective This study aimed to investigate the association between depressive symptoms among mothers and the eating behaviors of their school-going children in Urban Bangladesh. Materials and methods This analytical cross-sectional study was conducted in the context of the urban area of Bang...
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| author | Sharmin Sultana Faisal Muhammad ABM Alauddin Chowdhury Tasmia Tasnim Md. Imdadul Haque Abul Hasan BakiBillah Md. Kamrul Hossain Sanjana Zaman Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader Moniruddin Chowdhury |
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| description | Abstract Objective This study aimed to investigate the association between depressive symptoms among mothers and the eating behaviors of their school-going children in Urban Bangladesh. Materials and methods This analytical cross-sectional study was conducted in the context of the urban area of Bangladesh. A multistage sampling technique was applied to select 324 children’s mothers in Dhaka City. Data were collected from both city corporation settings in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Semi-structured questionnaires were used in this study. We estimated the depressive symptoms among mothers using the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale. We examined the association of mothers of school-going children’s socio-demographic variables and eating behaviors of school-going children with their mother’s depression by using chi-square and evaluating the impact of these variables on mothers’ depression through univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression. Results In our study, 57.7% of the mothers of school-going children had depressive symptoms, and 42.3% had no depressive symptoms. The study explored that consuming fewer vegetables (AOR = 0.237, 95% CI: 0.099–0.569), taking fewer fruits (AOR = 0.177, 95% CI: 0.093–0.337), and interestingly, taking fast food less than 4 days per week (AOR = 3.024, 95% CI: 1.517–6.031) were significantly associated with mothers’ depressive symptoms. Conclusion Mothers with depressive symptoms of school-going children in Dhaka city are alarmingly high as a grave concern. The eating behaviors of children are associated with their mothers’ depressive symptoms. With an aim to build rigorous awareness on depression and child’s healthy eating behaviors, it is imperative to arrange health education and awareness related programs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c625b683cabe4b3986d0ee7c4f07246d2023-11-20T10:46:17ZengBMCBMC Women's Health1472-68742023-08-012311810.1186/s12905-023-02584-wAssociation between depressive symptoms of mothers and eating behaviors of school-going children in Urban Bangladesh: A cross-sectional studySharmin Sultana0Faisal Muhammad1ABM Alauddin Chowdhury2Tasmia Tasnim3Md. Imdadul Haque4Abul Hasan BakiBillah5Md. Kamrul Hossain6Sanjana Zaman7Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader8Moniruddin Chowdhury9Department of Public Health, Daffodil International UniversityDepartment of Public Health, Daffodil International UniversityDepartment of Public Health, Daffodil International UniversityDepartment of Nutrition and Food Engineering, Daffodil International UniversityDepartment of Public Health, Daffodil International UniversityDepartment of Public Health, Daffodil International UniversityDepartment of General Educational Development, Daffodil International UniversityDepartment of Public Health, Daffodil International UniversityDepartment of Public Health, North South UniversityDepartment of Public Health, Daffodil International UniversityAbstract Objective This study aimed to investigate the association between depressive symptoms among mothers and the eating behaviors of their school-going children in Urban Bangladesh. Materials and methods This analytical cross-sectional study was conducted in the context of the urban area of Bangladesh. A multistage sampling technique was applied to select 324 children’s mothers in Dhaka City. Data were collected from both city corporation settings in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Semi-structured questionnaires were used in this study. We estimated the depressive symptoms among mothers using the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale. We examined the association of mothers of school-going children’s socio-demographic variables and eating behaviors of school-going children with their mother’s depression by using chi-square and evaluating the impact of these variables on mothers’ depression through univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression. Results In our study, 57.7% of the mothers of school-going children had depressive symptoms, and 42.3% had no depressive symptoms. The study explored that consuming fewer vegetables (AOR = 0.237, 95% CI: 0.099–0.569), taking fewer fruits (AOR = 0.177, 95% CI: 0.093–0.337), and interestingly, taking fast food less than 4 days per week (AOR = 3.024, 95% CI: 1.517–6.031) were significantly associated with mothers’ depressive symptoms. Conclusion Mothers with depressive symptoms of school-going children in Dhaka city are alarmingly high as a grave concern. The eating behaviors of children are associated with their mothers’ depressive symptoms. With an aim to build rigorous awareness on depression and child’s healthy eating behaviors, it is imperative to arrange health education and awareness related programs.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02584-wDepressive symptomsMotherEating behaviorsSchool-going childrenDhakaBangladesh |
| spellingShingle | Sharmin Sultana Faisal Muhammad ABM Alauddin Chowdhury Tasmia Tasnim Md. Imdadul Haque Abul Hasan BakiBillah Md. Kamrul Hossain Sanjana Zaman Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader Moniruddin Chowdhury Association between depressive symptoms of mothers and eating behaviors of school-going children in Urban Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study BMC Women's Health Depressive symptoms Mother Eating behaviors School-going children Dhaka Bangladesh |
| title | Association between depressive symptoms of mothers and eating behaviors of school-going children in Urban Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study |
| title_full | Association between depressive symptoms of mothers and eating behaviors of school-going children in Urban Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Association between depressive symptoms of mothers and eating behaviors of school-going children in Urban Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Association between depressive symptoms of mothers and eating behaviors of school-going children in Urban Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study |
| title_short | Association between depressive symptoms of mothers and eating behaviors of school-going children in Urban Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study |
| title_sort | association between depressive symptoms of mothers and eating behaviors of school going children in urban bangladesh a cross sectional study |
| topic | Depressive symptoms Mother Eating behaviors School-going children Dhaka Bangladesh |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02584-w |
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