Post-conflict household structures and underweight: a multilevel analysis of a community-based study in northern Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine associations between household-level characteristics and underweight in a post-conflict population.

Design

Nutritional status of residents in the Gulu Health and Demographic Surveillance Site was obtained during a community-based cross-sectional study, ~6 years after the civil war. Household-level factors included headship, polygamy, household size, child-to-adult ratio, child crowding, living with a stunted or overweight person, deprived area, distance to health centre and socio-economic status. Multilevel logistic regression models examined associations of household and community factors with underweight, calculating OR, corresponding 95 % CI and intraclass correlation coefficients. Effect modification by gender and age was examined by interaction term

SUBMITTER: Schramm S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10260774 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature