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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Khatoon, Tahmina
• Mollah, Md. Abid Hossain
• Choudhury, Ahmed Murtaza
• Islam, M. Munirul
• Rahman, Kazi Mizanur

Titel

Association between Infant- and Child-feeding Index and Nutritional Status: Results from a Cross-sectional Study among Children Attending an Urban Hospital in Bangladesh

Ist Teil von

• Journal of health, population and nutrition, 2012-02, Vol.29 (4)

Ort / Verlag

Bangladesh: ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Integration of infant- and child-feeding index (ICFI) addressing the multidimensional child-feeding practices into one age-specific summary index is gaining importance. This cross-sectional study was aimed at understanding the association between the ICFI and the nutritional status of 259 children, aged 6-23 months, who attended the paediatric outpatient department of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital in Bangladesh. The mean length-for-age z-score (LAZ) of children aged 12-23 months was significantly (p<0.05) higher among those who were at the upper ICFI tercile compared to those who were at the middle or lower ICFI tercile (-2.01 and -3.20 respectively). A significant correlation was found between the ICFI and the LAZ (r=0.24, p=0.01 and r=0.29, p=0.01) in children aged 6-8-months and 12-23-months. Multivariable analysis, after adjusting for potential confounders, also found a significant association between the ICFI and the LAZ (β=0.13, p=0.03). The predictive capability of the proposed ICFI on nutritional status of children, especially length-for-age, needs to be further evaluated prospectively among healthy children in the community.