Measuring malnutrition: needs a comprehensive indicator
Background: There are various classifications for grading the degrees of under nutrition. Different reference values and cut off points has been a major hindrance in comparing data across various studies and countries. Methods: Community based cross sectional study. Children from urban slums were ex...
Saved in:
Published in | International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health Vol. 5; no. 1; p. 258 |
---|---|
Main Author | |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
23.12.2017
|
Online Access | Get full text |
Cover
Loading…
Abstract | Background: There are various classifications for grading the degrees of under nutrition. Different reference values and cut off points has been a major hindrance in comparing data across various studies and countries. Methods: Community based cross sectional study. Children from urban slums were examined. Anthropometric measurements were taken. Data was analyzed with the help of SPSS ver 20 and appropriate tests were applied. Results: 400 children were examined. As per Z score classification, 39.8%, 36.5% and 24.8% of children are underweight, stunted and wasted respectively. As per IAP criteria, 44.7% are undernourished and 3.2% are severely undernourished (Grade III & IV). Compared to this, the Z score system identifies a much higher prevalence of severe undernutrition (15%) compared to IAP system. Composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) identifies 42% of underfive children are normal i.e. no failure, while 58% of children are undernourished. Conclusions: The current study suggests that conventional measures of undernutrition may be missing out a considerable proportion of undernourished children present in the population. CIAF can be used to measure overall prevalence of undernutrition. |
---|---|
AbstractList | Background: There are various classifications for grading the degrees of under nutrition. Different reference values and cut off points has been a major hindrance in comparing data across various studies and countries. Methods: Community based cross sectional study. Children from urban slums were examined. Anthropometric measurements were taken. Data was analyzed with the help of SPSS ver 20 and appropriate tests were applied. Results: 400 children were examined. As per Z score classification, 39.8%, 36.5% and 24.8% of children are underweight, stunted and wasted respectively. As per IAP criteria, 44.7% are undernourished and 3.2% are severely undernourished (Grade III & IV). Compared to this, the Z score system identifies a much higher prevalence of severe undernutrition (15%) compared to IAP system. Composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) identifies 42% of underfive children are normal i.e. no failure, while 58% of children are undernourished. Conclusions: The current study suggests that conventional measures of undernutrition may be missing out a considerable proportion of undernourished children present in the population. CIAF can be used to measure overall prevalence of undernutrition. |
Author | Akhade, Kiran Swapnil |
Author_xml | – sequence: 1 givenname: Kiran Swapnil surname: Akhade fullname: Akhade, Kiran Swapnil |
BookMark | eNpVkFFLwzAUhYNs4Nz2H-oP6LxJ7prGNxnqhIkvew9pcusia1qSTvDfy1QGPp0DBw583w2bxD4SY7ccVrwWIO-E1FhWgLAKH64bDgK4Wistr9jsMk0uXYprtsw5NICokKsKZ0y9ks2nFOJ70dljPI0pjKGP90Uk8rmwheu7IdGBYg6fVITog7NjnxZs2tpjpuVfztn-6XG_2Za7t-eXzcOudBwqWVrftNwhoFear4WqwXIADVJ5UUlNtgFL5IQm7WWF3qOVNbVOCwB0KOdM_9661OecqDVDCp1NX4aD-XFgznDmDGr-O5DfeiFTcg |
CitedBy_id | crossref_primary_10_1017_S1368980021000240 crossref_primary_10_29392_001c_21942 |
ContentType | Journal Article |
DBID | AAYXX CITATION |
DOI | 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20175793 |
DatabaseName | CrossRef |
DatabaseTitle | CrossRef |
DatabaseTitleList | CrossRef |
DeliveryMethod | fulltext_linktorsrc |
EISSN | 2394-6040 |
ExternalDocumentID | 10_18203_2394_6040_ijcmph20175793 |
GroupedDBID | AAYXX CITATION M~E |
ID | FETCH-LOGICAL-c1063-adbf1c404d79152780a1009037d2639eab0aeec29e9d364dd4a38efc92004c43 |
ISSN | 2394-6032 |
IngestDate | Fri Aug 23 03:18:21 EDT 2024 |
IsPeerReviewed | false |
IsScholarly | true |
Issue | 1 |
Language | English |
LinkModel | OpenURL |
MergedId | FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-c1063-adbf1c404d79152780a1009037d2639eab0aeec29e9d364dd4a38efc92004c43 |
ParticipantIDs | crossref_primary_10_18203_2394_6040_ijcmph20175793 |
PublicationCentury | 2000 |
PublicationDate | 2017-12-23 |
PublicationDateYYYYMMDD | 2017-12-23 |
PublicationDate_xml | – month: 12 year: 2017 text: 2017-12-23 day: 23 |
PublicationDecade | 2010 |
PublicationTitle | International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health |
PublicationYear | 2017 |
SSID | ssib044741764 |
Score | 2.0678592 |
Snippet | Background: There are various classifications for grading the degrees of under nutrition. Different reference values and cut off points has been a major... |
SourceID | crossref |
SourceType | Aggregation Database |
StartPage | 258 |
Title | Measuring malnutrition: needs a comprehensive indicator |
Volume | 5 |
hasFullText | 1 |
inHoldings | 1 |
isFullTextHit | |
isPrint | |
link | http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwnV3dS8MwEA86QXwRRcVvKvgmnf1Iv3wTmQxl-jJhbyVNUjY_6pgTwQf_du-aNOucou6lLSk90v4ul8v17hdCjqOQx4FHwfpRym0a5dJmQsZ2yAOax77veiXFRucmbN_Rq17QmxAqlNUl46zJ37-tK5kHVWgDXLFK9h_IGqHQANeALxwBYTj-CeNOGeDDxf4TeywqXn1c5BcwKb1g4SMM95Hs6yx1_D_NmeIXNi7pbEwQz7f5ia4dAS-9o3_AY_qjDvTp-iWjLw99TeB7PRihyXhjw0Jnb-iYAsxTrmersl9lenC_dDt0dORR1tsUuVJlO4MZFdF2UPGxz9hn8DeQKMLIag7uOWgt9iGI1FaJ05zYX-Yqk0GIaxcUlqKoFEWl06IWyZIXJQFmeXY-WpWJoRQ8qKgkFTPvuEyOqq6d_tSxmtdScz-6a2RVw2KdKyVYJwuy2CCRUQCrrgBnVgm_xawp-C0D_ybpXra6F21b74Rhc1iy-zB8stzl1KEiSnAf4thhroMRtkh44GJKljlMSu4lMhF-SIWgzI9lzhMcLZz6W6RRPBdym1hSsiSRGYVbnIYiZ5mbc-G7LE4EVtPvEK960XSo-E7SX7_17jwP7ZGViertk8Z49CoPwMEbZ4clZJ9X5E2j |
link.rule.ids | 315,786,790,27955,27956 |
linkProvider | ISSN International Centre |
openUrl | ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Measuring+malnutrition%3A+needs+a+comprehensive+indicator&rft.jtitle=International+Journal+Of+Community+Medicine+And+Public+Health&rft.au=Akhade%2C+Kiran+Swapnil&rft.date=2017-12-23&rft.issn=2394-6032&rft.eissn=2394-6040&rft.volume=5&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=258&rft_id=info:doi/10.18203%2F2394-6040.ijcmph20175793&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID=10_18203_2394_6040_ijcmph20175793 |
thumbnail_l | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/lc.gif&issn=2394-6032&client=summon |
thumbnail_m | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/mc.gif&issn=2394-6032&client=summon |
thumbnail_s | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/sc.gif&issn=2394-6032&client=summon |