Maternal risk factors for underweight among children under-five in a resource limited setting: A community based case control study.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies conducted in Nepal have not identified the potential maternal risk for underweight among children under-five years of age in resource-poor settings. Therefore, to identify these risk factors for being underweight among children under-five years old, a community-based case-control study was conducted in a rural village in the Chitwan District in Nepal. Cases were defined as children who were diagnosed as underweight based on low weight per age, whereas controls were the children with normal weight for their age. Mothers of 93 cases and 186 controls were invited for an interview to collect the data. More than half of underweight children were female (51.6%) and nearly one third of them (31.2%) were aged 13-24 months. Nearly, 30% of the cases belonged to families in the lowes

SUBMITTER: Sigdel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7241795 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature