Nutritional status of under-five children born to teenage mothers in an urban setting, south-western Nigeria

Autor: M.D. Olodu, Esimai Oa, Samuel Anu Olowookere, Adewunmi Grace Adeyemi
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
0301 basic medicine
Breastfeeding
lcsh:Medicine
Logistic regression
0302 clinical medicine
Nutritional status
Pregnancy
Teenage mothers
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
lcsh:QH301-705.5
Wasting
Growth Disorders
Under-fives
General Medicine
Research Note
Breast Feeding
Child
Preschool
Pregnancy in Adolescence
Female
Underweight
medicine.symptom
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Adult
Adolescent
Nigeria
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology
Odds
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Thinness
Humans
lcsh:Science (General)
Local government area
Wasting Syndrome
business.industry
Breastfeeding practice
lcsh:R
Infant
Newborn
Infant
medicine.disease
Malnutrition
Cross-Sectional Studies
030104 developmental biology
lcsh:Biology (General)
business
lcsh:Q1-390
Demography
Zdroj: BMC Research Notes, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2019)
BMC Research Notes
ISSN: 1756-0500
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-019-4147-x
Popis: Objective There have been many studies on the nutritional status of under-fives and factors responsible but very few looks at this special group of women. This study assessed the breastfeeding practices of teenage mothers and determined its association with the nutritional indices of their under-five children. The study was a descriptive cross-sectional survey. A total of 300 mother–child pair was selected using a multi-stage sampling technique from Primary Health Care centres in Ondo West Local Government Area, Ondo State, Nigeria. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were done to identify predictors’ of poor nutritional status at p
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