Haile PhD, AbebeAsmare, Senait2022-06-232023-11-182022-06-232023-11-182021-11http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/32118Among 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.enNutritional status, stunting, underweight, anthropometric measurement, , Yeka sub-city.Thesis