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SOCIOCULTURAL AND OTHER FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MALNOURISHED CHILDREN AGED UNDER FIVE IN PREAH VIHEAR PROVINCE CAMBODIA |
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| Title | SOCIOCULTURAL AND OTHER FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MALNOURISHED CHILDREN AGED UNDER FIVE IN PREAH VIHEAR PROVINCE CAMBODIA |
| Creator | Sin Vorn |
| Contributor | Ratana Somrongthong |
| Publisher | Chulalongkorn University |
| Publication Year | 2556 |
| Keyword | Malnutrition in children -- Cambodia, Public health, Maternal health services, ทุพโภชนาการในเด็ก -- กัมพูชา, สาธารณสุข, อนามัยแม่และเด็ก |
| Abstract | Malnutrition affects physical, mental and intellectual development as well asthe morbidity, mortality and physical work ability and the continued consequencesimpact on human performance and survival. It is underlying causes resulted in manydiseases and death for the children under-five years of age. Factors are contributing tothe malnourished children are considered to many and varied.The objective of the cross sectional study is to identify the sociocultural andother factors associated with underweight children age under-five in Preah Vihearprovince. Factors considered socio demographic characteristics of the mothers/closedcaregiver,food relating factors, environment factors, household economic and healthstatus of mother and child. It was a cross sectional study using a modifiedquestionnaire from MICS 2006 and measure of weight and height.Two hundred twenty households with children under-five from 3 sub-districtof Chhaeb, Preah Vihear participated in the study. SPSS (version 16) was used for dataanalysis of frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and crosstabulation testedby chi-square test. The result showed that the prevalence of underweight, stunting andwasting children under-five years of age was 77.3%, 60.9% and 61.4%. Most of therespondents were farmers (95.3%) and no education (33.6%) and completed primaryschool (63.7%). From the statistical analysis using Chi-square; factors associate withunderweight children were level of mother’s education, number of timesfeeding/breastfeeding, feeding child extra snacks, children ate carbohydrate, proteinfood, vegetables/fruits, sweets (p<0.05). Moreover, the finding revealed that theenvironment factors (child drinking water treatment) and child health factors (childfever with cough) showed statistical significant with underweight children (p<0.05).In term of food culture, beliefs and prejudice there were no statisticalsignificant different. However, over half the mothers/closed-caregivers thought thatchild ate fish caused parasite and first breast milk caused child diarrhea or sickness dueto their food beliefs. For improving the child nutritional status, health and nutrition andsafe drinking water should be provided to the mothers. |
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