Nutritional status and its associated factors among elderly people in Ilu Aba Bor Zone, Southwest Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to assess the nutritional status and its associated factors among elderly people.

Design

A community-based cross-sectional study.

Setting

The study was conducted in urban and semiurban areas.

Participants

The study included 620 elderly community dwellers in Southwest Ethiopia from 3 October 2021 to 10 November 2021. Those who were seriously ill, could not get around or were on special diets were excluded from the study.

Outcome measure

The Mini Nutritional Assessment was used to evaluate nutritional status and the STEPwise approach was used to collect data on backgrounds and lifestyle. SPSS V.22.0 was used for data analysis. Logistic regression was computed. The level of significance was set at 0.05.

Results

Elderly peo

SUBMITTER: Shuremu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9890780 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature