Prevalence of malnutrition among under-five children in Kazaure Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria
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2014
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University of Ilorin
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The study was conducted to determine the prevalence of malnutrition among under-five children in Kazaure Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria. The design of the study was a descriptive cross sectional survey and the sampling procedure was a multi-stage cluster sampling using the EPI method. Thirty (30) clusters were selected randomly from the list of the villages by assigning probability proportional to population size (PPS), using Emergency Nutrition Assessment (ENA) delta software. The second stage was selection of households and finally, selection of at least 20 children aged 6-59 months within each cluster. Variables such as age, sex, weight and height were collected for each child included in the survey on standardized questionnaire. The result showed that the overall prevalence of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) from the study was 1.7 % (0.9 - 3.1 95 % CI). Two cases of oedema were found during the survey, while global acute malnutrition (GAM) was 10.2 % (7.8 - 13.3 95 % CI) and 59.2 % (42.2 - 57.4 95 % CI) for stunting. It is concluded that chronic malnutrition is endemic in the study area based on the high prevalence of stunting found, hence intervention study should be targeted at preventing acute malnutrition in the study area.
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Prevalence, malnutrition, under-five, Kazaure, Nigeria