Factors associated with nutritional status in infants attending public daycare centers in the municipality of Recife, PE, Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia

Barros, Maria de Fátima Alcântara²  Oliveira, Juliana Souza¹  Carvalho, Antonio Geraldo Cidrão de²  Lima, Marília de Carvalho¹  Lira, Pedro Israel Cabral de¹ 

[1] Universidade Federal de Pernambuco;Universidade Federal da Paraíba

关键词: Child;    nutritional status;    Anthropometry;    Length-for-age;    Child daycare centers;    Cross-sectional studies;    Epidemiologic factors.;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1415-790X2013000200024

学科分类：过敏症与临床免疫学

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Objective: To evaluate the nutritional status of infants attending daycare centers in the Municipality of Recife and to verify its association with potential determinant factors. Methods: This is a cross sectional study conducted with 321 infants in the age group of 6 to 30 months from August to October 2004. The nutritional status was assessed through length-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-length and body mass index-for-age using as reference pattern that of the World Health Organization. Multivariable linear regression analysis assessed the effect of maternal socioeconomic and demographical indicators, and child related variables on infant length-for-age. Results: The percentages of malnutrition (Z score < -2) were found in 13.4%, 2.8%, 0.6% and 0.6% for length-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-length and body mass index-for-age, respectively. The final model of the linear multivariable regression analysis showed that the socioeconomic (type of roof and water supply) and child biological conditions (birthweight, age and hemoglobin concentration) were the variables that significantly influenced the variation of length-for-age, explaining 3.8% and 12.8%, respectively. Conclusion: Among the studied variables, child biological factors had a higher influence in the variation of length-for-age than the socioeconomic ones.

【 授权许可】

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