Analyzing Factors Determining the Nutritional Status of Under Five Children in Yeka Sub-City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2021-11
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Among one of the major problems related to public health of various countries globally is
prevalence of malnutrition. Worldwide more than 30% of children under five years old are affected
by malnutrition. Nutritional status of children is an important element of crucial public. More over
the deprived status of children’s nutrition is still unfailing problem of Ethiopia. In this community
based cross sectional study the determinants of nutritional status of were analyzed and assessed
from four selected woredas of Yeka sub city from which 294 children of age under five were
engaged for the study.
From the study result the prevalence of stunting was found to be 26.6% and 10.4% children were
severely stunted (<‐ 2SD and <‐ 3SD respectively). Under consideration of sex of the children
from the study group, the result showed that, prevalence of stunting of male children was found to
be 34.7% and for females it was 17.7%. This result prevails that prevalence of stunting was more
in male children. This study found that children between 12 to 23 (30.3%) months and with
uneducated mothers were more stunted.
This study result found that 8.8% of the children were underweight, in addition prevalence of
underweight was higher among male children than that of female children, 12.1% male and 5.9%
female children under five of age were underweight. Stunting and underweight of children under
five was very high in the study area. The determinant factors of stunting in the study area were
mother’s education and sex and age of the child, whereas conjecturers of child underweight was
sex of the child and father’s occupation.
This study found that nutritional status of children were influenced by the educational background
of their parents, in which children from literate parents had a better nutritional status than those
from illiterate parents. The study has found that the precursor issues for children under the age of
five malnutrition are related with maternal, child, socio economic and environmental
characteristics. To improve interventions additional detailed studies should also be invigorated
till nutritional status of children is insured.
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Nutritional status, stunting, underweight, anthropometric measurement, , Yeka sub-city.