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Volume 8
Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
ISSN: 2165-7904
Childhood Obesity 2018
March 15-16, 2018
March 15-16, 2018 | Barcelona, Spain
11
th
International Conference on
Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among children aged 6-59 months at HidabuAbote
district, North Shewa, Oromia
Kebede Mengistu Assefa
Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
Introduction
: Malnutrition continues to be a major public health problem in developing countries. It is the most important
risk factor for the burden of diseases. It causes about 300,000 deaths per year and responsible for more than half of all deaths
in children. In Ethiopia, child malnutrition rate is one of the most serious public health problem and the highest in the world.
High malnutrition rates in the country pose a significant obstacle to achieve better child health outcomes.
Objective:
To assess prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among children aged 6-59 months at Hidabu Abote
district, North Shewa, Oromia.
Methods:
A community based cross sectional study was conducted on 820 children aged 6-59 months from September 8-23,
2012 at Hidabu Abote district. Multistage sampling method was used to select households. Children were selected from each
kebeles by simple random sampling. Anthropometric measurements and structured questions were used. Data was processed
using EPi-info software and exported to SPSS for analysis. Then after, sex, age, months, height and weight transferred with
HHs number to ENA for SMART 2007 software to convert nutritional data into Z-scores of the indices; H/A, W/H and W/A.
Bivariate and multivariate logistic regressions were used to identify associated factors of malnutrition.
Results:
The analysis of this study revealed that 47.6%, 30.9% and 16.7% of children were stunted, underweight and wasted,
respectively. The main associated factors of stunting were found to be child age, family monthly income, and children were
received butter as pre-lacteal feeding and family planning. Underweight was associated with number of children HHs and
children were received butter as per-lacteal feeding but treatment of water in HHs only associated with wasting.
Conclusion:
From the findings of this study, it is concluded that malnutrition is still an important problem among children
aged 6-59 months. Therefore, special attention should be given on intervention of malnutrition.
kebme2004@gmail.comJ Obes Weight Loss Ther 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-058