Prevalence and factors associated with underweight children: a population-based subnational analysis from Pakistan.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to determine the prevalence of and factors associated with underweight children under the age of 5 in Punjab, Pakistan.

Design

We analysed cross-sectional household-level subnationally representative Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey.

Settings

Punjab province, Pakistan.

Participants

24 042 children under 5 years of age.

Data analysis

Multilevel multivariate logistic regression analysis.

Results

Prevalence of moderately and severely underweight children was found to be (33.3% and 11.3%, respectively). Multivariate multilevel logistic regression results show that as the child grows older the likelihood of the child being underweight increases significantly (eg, children between 12 and 23 months are one and half times more

SUBMITTER: Kumar R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6678069 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature