Achievement of adequate weight gain among infants and children with complicated severe acute malnutrition receiving treatment in therapeutic feeding centers of South Sudanese refugee camps in Ethiopia

ABSTRACT:

Objectives:

This study aimed to assess achievement of adequate weight gain and identify its associated factors among infants and children with complicated severe acute malnutrition admitted in Kule and Tierkidi refugee camps in Gambella, Southwest Ethiopia.

Methods:

Records of 332 infants and children with complicated severe acute malnutrition were selected by systematic random sampling. Weight gain was calculated for all participants. Patients who achieved weight gain of >5 g/kg/day were regarded as achieving adequate weight gain. Sociodemographic characteristics, season of admission, patients’ anthropometry at admission, source of admission, clinical conditions at admission, types of medications used, length of stay at the centers, and the centers of the treatment were

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC9893057 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature