Age differences in the impact of a Positive Deviance/Hearth programme on the nutritional status of children in rural Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the difference in the rehabilitation rate from underweight by child age at enrolment in the Positive Deviance (PD)/Hearth programme.

Design

This secondary data analysis used programme monitoring records of underweight children aged 6-60 months attending a 2-week PD/Hearth session and followed up for 6 months from September 2018 to March 2019. Data were analysed using multilevel mixed-effect regression and Poisson regression with robust variance.

Setting

Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh.

Participants

A total of 5227 underweight (weight-for-age Z-score (WAZ) <-2) children attended the PD/Hearth sessions.

Results

From enrolment to 6 months follow-up, the mean WAZ improved from -2·80 to -2·09, and the percentage of underweight children decr

SUBMITTER: Kim Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195379 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature