On selection of an appropriate logistic model to determine the risk factors of childhood stunting in Bangladesh

Maternal & Child Nutrition
Kakoli Rani Bhowmik, Sumonkanti Das

Abstract

Stunting is the core measure of child health inequalities as it reveals multiple dimensions of child health and development status. The main focus of this study is to show the procedure of selecting the most appropriate logistic regression model for stunting by developing and comparing several plausible models, which ultimately helps to identify the predictors of childhood stunting in Bangladesh. This study utilizes child anthropometric data collected in the 2014 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. Valid height-for-age anthropometric indices were available for a total of 6,931 children aged 0-59 months, of which about 36% were stunted. Ordinary logistic, survey logistic, marginal logistic, and random intercept logistic regression models were developed assuming independence, sampling design, cluster effect, and hierarchy of the data. Based on a number of model selection criteria, random intercept logistic model is found the most appropriate for the studied children. A number of child, mother, household, regional, and community-level variables were included in the model specification. The factors that increased the odds of stunting are children older than 11 months, short birth interval, recent morbidity of children, lower ...Continue Reading

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