RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Prevalence of Stunting and Associated Factors among public Primary School pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-Based Cross-Sectional Study
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 756239
DO 10.1101/756239
A1 Getasew Mulat Bantie
A1 Kidist Hailu Akenew
A1 Mahlet Tilahun Belete
A1 Eyerusalem Teshome Tena
A1 Genet Gebreselasie Gebretsadik
A1 Aynalem Nebebe Tsegaw
A1 Tigist Birru Woldemariam
A1 Ashenafi Abate Woya
A1 Amare Alemu Melese
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/09/03/756239.abstract
AB Background Stunting is a well-established pupils-health indicator of chronic malnutrition which reliably gives a picture of the past nutritional history and the prevailing environmental and socioeconomic circumstances.Objective The prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city.Method A cross-sectional study was carried out from March to June 2019. Data were coded and entered into Epi-Data and exported to SPSS. Then, Anthropometric data were converted into height for age Z-scores to determine the pupils stunting outcomes using WHO Anthro-Plus software. Then, the final analysis was done by SPSS version 20 software. Anthropometric measurements determined the proportion of stunting (z-score of height for age less than minus two standard deviations from WHO Anthro-plus software output). A simple logistic regression model was fitted to identify factors associated between the independent variables and the dependent variable at a 95% confidence level and p-value <0.05.Results 370 primary school pupils were included in the study with the mean age of 121.84(± 26.67) months. About 51.6% of the pupils were females. The total prevalence of stunting was 15.13% (95%CI; 11%, 19%). The burden of stunting was higher in the age group of greater than 132 months. Pupil’s age ≥132 months (AOR=15.6; 95%CI; 3.31, 73.45; p-value<0.001) and male pupils (AOR=7.07; 95%CI: 2.51, 19.89; p-value<0.0002) were significantly associated with stunting.Conclusion The prevalence of stunting was relatively lower than the regional estimated stunting level. However, this result is also very significant figure to get critical attention. Pupil’s age ≥ 132 months and male sex were significantly associated with stunting.