Nutritional status and concomitant factors of stunting among pre-school children in Malda, India: A micro-level study using a multilevel approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malnutrition was the main cause of death among children below 5 years in every state of India in 2017. Despite several flagship programmes and schemes implemented by the Government of India, the latest edition of the Global Nutrition Report 2018 addressed that India tops in the number of stunted children, which is a matter of concern. Thus, a micro-level study was designed to know the level of nutritional status and to study this by various disaggregate levels, as well as to examine the risk factors of stunting among pre-school children aged 36-59 months in Malda.

Method

A primary cross-sectional quantitative survey was conducted using structured questionnaires following a multi-stage, stratified simple random sampling procedure in 2018. A sum of 731 mothers with

SUBMITTER: Sk R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8447797 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature