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Prevalence of malnutrition and its associated factors among 18,503 Chinese children aged 3-14 years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child malnutrition places a major burden on global public health. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of child malnutrition and identify its potential factors among children aged 3-14 years from Beijing and Tangshan.

Methods

We cross-sectionally recruited 18,503 children aged 3-14 years from September 2020 to January 2022, according to a stratified cluster random sampling strategy. Child malnutrition was defined according to the World Health Organization criteria. Data were analyzed by STATA software and R language.

Results

The prevalence of malnutrition among 18,503 children was 10.93%. After multivariable adjustment, seven factors significantly associated with child malnutrition were parental education (adjusted odds ratio, 95% confidence interval, p: 1.52, 1.40 to 1.67, <0.001), family income (1.23, 1.16 to 1.30, <0.001), fast food intake frequency (1.14, 1.06 to 1.21, <0.001), night meals intake frequency (1.09, 1.04 to 1.15, <0.001), eating speed (1.01, 1.01 to 1.02, <0.001), maternal obesity (0.97, 0.95 to 0.99, <0.001), and paternal obesity (0.97, 0.96 to 0.98, <0.001). The seven significant factors had better prediction performance (area under the receiver operating characteristic, 0.956) for child malnutrition.

Conclusion

Approximately 10% of Chinese children aged 3-14 years were in malnutrition status, and seven factors were found to be significant predictors for child malnutrition.

SUBMITTER: Zhang X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10750408 | biostudies-literature | 2023

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Prevalence of malnutrition and its associated factors among 18,503 Chinese children aged 3-14 years.

Zhang Xiaoqian X Wang Qiong Q Gao Ziyu Z Zhang Zifeng Z Wu Jing J Zhang Zhixin Z Niu Wenquan W

Frontiers in nutrition 20231211

<h4>Background</h4>Child malnutrition places a major burden on global public health. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of child malnutrition and identify its potential factors among children aged 3-14 years from Beijing and Tangshan.<h4>Methods</h4>We cross-sectionally recruited 18,503 children aged 3-14 years from September 2020 to January 2022, according to a stratified cluster random sampling strategy. Child malnutrition was defined according to the World Health Organization criteria. Data ...[more]

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Prevalence of malnutrition and its associated factors among 18,503 Chinese children aged 3-14 years.

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