Prevalence and factors associated with underweight children: a population-based subnational analysis from Pakistan

BMJ Open
R KumarRatana Somrongthong

Abstract

This study aims to determine the prevalence of and factors associated with underweight children under the age of 5 in Punjab, Pakistan. We analysed cross-sectional household-level subnationally representative Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. Punjab province, Pakistan. 24 042 children under 5 years of age. Multilevel multivariate logistic regression analysis. Prevalence of moderately and severely underweight children was found to be (33.3% and 11.3%, respectively). Multivariate multilevel logistic regression results show that as the child grows older the likelihood of the child being underweight increases significantly (eg, children between 12 and 23 months are one and half times more likely to be underweight, whereas children between the ages of 36 and 47 months are two and a half times more likely to be underweight). Gender was found to be another significant factor contributing to underweight prevalence among children under the age of 5. The likelihood of a girl child being underweight is more than that of a boy child being underweight (OR 0.92, 95% CI 0.8 to 1.0). Similarly, a child whose birth order is three or more is two times more likely to be underweight (OR 1.96, 95% CI 1.5 to 2.5) relative to a child of a lower birt...Continue Reading

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