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Aschalew Gatiso Endale
Oromia Regional Health Bureau
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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3250-4660
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BACKGROUND: Acute malnutrition is a devastating public health problem. Globally about, 52 million underfive years old were wasted. One-third of these children live in Africa and Ethiopia is the seventh country among the ten top countries in which wasting is concentrated and currently 10% of under-five children are wasted. Although Ethiopia is implementing different nutritional interventions, but the prevalence of wasting is increasing and there is no scientific study done previously in the study area. So this study aimed to assess the prevalence of Acute Malnutrition and associated factors among children under five years in Rural Kebeles of Shashemene District, West Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia, 2018.
METHOD: A community based cross-sectional study design with multi stage sampling technique was conducted from July 1-30/2018 on a total of 457Mothers/caretakers of under-five children were interviewed using structured questionnaire and anthropometric measurements of the children were taken using standard procedures. Epi info version 7 was used for data entry and cleaning and SPSS version 21 was used for analysis bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were used to determine the association between dependent and independent variables. World Health Organization (WHO) Anthro software was used to convert nutritional data indices.
RESULT: The prevalence of wasting was 91(19.9%) with 95%CI. Mothers with no Antenatal Care (ANC) visits (AOR=2.26, 95%CI 1.14-4.46), mothers who had no autonomous in decision making (AOR=2.42, 95%CI 1.42-4.12), children with diarrheal disease in the last 2 weeks preceding the survey(AOR=2.07,95%CI 1.19-3.59)and deprive colostrum’s (AOR=1.99, 95% CI 1.07- 3.71) were had high risks for Acute malnutrition of their children’s.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: This finding showed that, the prevalence of wasting is high; Mothers who had no power in decision making, squeezed out and throw colostrum’s, Mothers who had no ANC visit, child’s history of Diarrhea in the last two weeks were independent determinants of acute malnutrition. So the Woreda Health office and Health Extension Workers should consider empowering women, awareness and accessible antenatal care services, hygiene and sanitation to reduce acute malnutrition.
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Acute-Malnutrition (wasting).
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Aschalew Gatiso Endale
Oromia Regional Health Bureau
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BACKGROUND: Acute malnutrition is a devastating public health problem. Globally about, 52 million underfive years old were wasted. One-third of these children live in Africa and Ethiopia is the seventh country among the ten top countries in which wasting is concentrated and currently 10% of under-five children are wasted. Although Ethiopia is implementing different nutritional interventions, but the prevalence of wasting is increasing and there is no scientific study done previously in the study area. So this study aimed to assess the prevalence of Acute Malnutrition and associated factors among children under five years in Rural Kebeles of Shashemene District, West Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia, 2018.
METHOD: A community based cross-sectional study design with multi stage sampling technique was conducted from July 1-30/2018 on a total of 457Mothers/caretakers of under-five children were interviewed using structured questionnaire and anthropometric measurements of the children were taken using standard procedures. Epi info version 7 was used for data entry and cleaning and SPSS version 21 was used for analysis bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were used to determine the association between dependent and independent variables. World Health Organization (WHO) Anthro software was used to convert nutritional data indices.
RESULT: The prevalence of wasting was 91(19.9%) with 95%CI. Mothers with no Antenatal Care (ANC) visits (AOR=2.26, 95%CI 1.14-4.46), mothers who had no autonomous in decision making (AOR=2.42, 95%CI 1.42-4.12), children with diarrheal disease in the last 2 weeks preceding the survey(AOR=2.07,95%CI 1.19-3.59)and deprive colostrum’s (AOR=1.99, 95% CI 1.07- 3.71) were had high risks for Acute malnutrition of their children’s.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: This finding showed that, the prevalence of wasting is high; Mothers who had no power in decision making, squeezed out and throw colostrum’s, Mothers who had no ANC visit, child’s history of Diarrhea in the last two weeks were independent determinants of acute malnutrition. So the Woreda Health office and Health Extension Workers should consider empowering women, awareness and accessible antenatal care services, hygiene and sanitation to reduce acute malnutrition.
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