Social, biological, and programmatic factors linking adolescent pregnancy and early childhood undernutrition: a path analysis of India's 2016 National Family and Health Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescent pregnancy and child undernutrition are major social and public health concerns. We aimed to examine associations between adolescent pregnancy and child undernutrition in India, where one in five adolescents live, and one in three of the world's stunted children.

Methods

Data were from India's fourth National Family Health Survey, 2015-16. Primiparous women aged 15-49 years who gave birth between 2010 and 2016 were classified on the basis of age at first birth: 10-19 years (adolescence), 20-24 years (young adulthood), and 25 years or older (adulthood). Primary outcomes were anthropometric measures of offspring undernutrition. Multivariable regression and structural equation models were used to understand the extent to which these measures were linked to

SUBMITTER: Nguyen PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6558962 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature