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Nutritional Status of Under-five Siblings of Severely Wasted Children in Bhopal

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Abstract

Objective

To study the prevalence and associated factors of undernutrition in siblings of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM).

Method

It was a community-based cross-sectional study of under-five year siblings of children with SAM.

Results

A total of 128 under-five years siblings were studied, 30% had SAM whereas 20% had moderate acute malnutrition (MAM). More than 7 members in a family (OR=4.23, CI 1.9–9.6, P<0.001), underweight mothers (OR=5.2, CI 2.08–13.0, P<0.001), children who received pre-lacteal feeds (OR=3.24, CI 1.33–7.87, P=0.007), and Muslim religion (OR=4.44, CI 1.78–11.1, P<0.001) were significantly associated with finding of another child with SAM in the family.

Conclusion

There was high proportion of severe malnutrition in siblings of children with SAM. Consideration should be given to actively screen all under-5 children in the family of a newly diagnosed child with SAM for undernutrition.

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  1. Department of Community Medicine, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Yachana Choudhary, Manju Dubey, Dinesh Kumar Pal & Herschel Dafal

  2. Department of Trauma and Emergency (Pediatrics), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    Bharat Choudhary

  3. Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Basni Industrial Area Phase II, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    Bharat Choudhary

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Contributions

Contributors: BC,YC,DKP: conceptualize the manuscript; BC, YC, DKP, MD, HD: written the protocol for the project, helped in literature review, manuscript preparation, and critical revision.

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Correspondence to Bharat Choudhary.

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Ethics clearance: IEC-GMC, Bhopal. No. 7658-60/MC/IEC/2016 dated March 22, 2016.

Competing interests: None stated.

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Choudhary, Y., Choudhary, B., Dubey, M. et al. Nutritional Status of Under-five Siblings of Severely Wasted Children in Bhopal. Indian Pediatr 59, 117–119 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-022-2441-5

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