Determinants of maternal low mid‐upper arm circumference and its association with child nutritional status among poor and very poor households in rural Bangladesh

Autor: Towfida Jahan Siddiqua, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, S M Tanvir Ahmed, Tahmeed Ahmed, Mohammad Ali, Ahshanul Haque, Mohammad Jyoti Raihan, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Nuzhat Choudhury, Sheikh Shahed Rahman
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Rural Population
mid‐upper arm circumference
Mid upper arm circumference
Logistic regression
Pediatrics
0302 clinical medicine
underweight
food insecurity
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Nutritional diseases. Deficiency diseases
Child
Wasting
Bangladesh
Nutrition and Dietetics
anthropometry
public health
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nutritional status
child nutrition
Arm
Original Article
Female
medicine.symptom
Underweight
maternal nutrition
medicine.medical_specialty
RC620-627
baseline survey
Mothers
Nutritional Status
RJ1-570
03 medical and health sciences
Environmental health
Humans
030109 nutrition & dietetics
business.industry
Public health
Suchana
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
nutritional and metabolic diseases
Infant
Gynecology and obstetrics
Original Articles
Anthropometry
medicine.disease
Malnutrition
Cross-Sectional Studies
Pediatrics
Perinatology and Child Health
RG1-991
business
Zdroj: Maternal & Child Nutrition
Maternal and Child Nutrition, Vol 17, Iss 4, Pp n/a-n/a (2021)
ISSN: 1740-8709
1740-8695
Popis: Malnutrition among women is a long‐standing public health concern that has significant adverse consequences on the survival and healthy development of children. Maternal mid‐upper arm circumference (MUAC) could potentially represent a simpler alternative to traditional nutritional indicators. This study aimed to investigate the factors associated with low maternal MUAC (as an indicator of being underweight) and address the research question of whether maternal MUAC is significantly associated with children's nutritional status among poor and very poor households in rural Bangladesh. Data on 5,069 households were extracted from the Suchana programme baseline survey, which was carried out in 80 randomly selected unions (the lowest administrative unit of Bangladesh) in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts between November 2016 and February 2017. The outcome variables were three child nutritional status indicators: wasting, stunting and underweight. Mothers were classified as underweight if their MUAC was less than 23 cm. Separate multiple logistic regression analyses were used to determine the factors potentially associated with maternal underweight status and explore whether maternal underweight status is significantly associated with children's nutritional status. The prevalence of maternal underweight status was 46.7%, and the prevalence of wasting, stunting and underweight among children under two were 10.5%, 44.4% and 31.9%, respectively. After controlling for various socio‐economic and demographic characteristics, maternal MUAC was significantly associated with children's nutritional status in rural Bangladesh.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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