Research Article
Stunting and Overweight among 12-24-Month-Old Children Receiving Vaccination in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Table 5
Characteristics of children and mothers in children groups with overweight/obesity and without overweight/obesity (n=768).
| | | Overweight/obesity | p value | | | Yes (N= 82) | No (N= 686) | |
| | Characteristics of children | | | | | Gender | | | | | Female | 40 (48.8) | 331 (48.2) | 0.93 | | Male | 42 (51.2) | 355 (51.8) | | | Age (months) | 17.4 ± 4.3 | 16.5 ± 4.2 | 0.19 | | Weight at birth | | | | | Low (< 2500 g) | 9 (11.0) | 72 (10.5) | 0.89 | | Normal (≥ 2500 g) | 73 (89.0) | 614 (89.5) | | | Breastfeeding in the first hour after birth | | | | | Yes | 51 (62.2) | 431 (62.9) | 0.90 | | No | 31 (38.8) | 254 (37.1) | | | Receiving conmplementary foods (n=219) | | | | | < 6 months | 10 (12.2) | 65 (9.5) | 0.43 | | ≥ 6 months | 72 (87.8) | 621 (90.5) | |
| | Characteristics of mothers | | | | | Age (years) (n=767) | | | | | ≥ 18 and <25 | 3 (3.7) | 65 (9.5) | 0.17 | | ≥ 25 and <40 | 75 (91.5) | 577 (84.2) | | | ≥ 40 | 4 (4.8) | 43 (6.3) | | | Occupation (n=737) | | | | | Government officer/ worker | 48 (59.3) | 358 (54.6) | 0.38 | | Seller | 6 (7.4) | 83 (12.7) | | | Housewife | 27 (33.3) | 215 (32.7) | | | Education (n=767) | | | | | < Primary school | 13 (15.9) | 103 (15.0) | 0.60 | | Secondary school | 28 (34.1) | 201 (29.3) | | | > High school | 41 (50.0) | 381 (55.6) | | | Gross household income (n=727) | | | | | Moderate | 74 (91.4) | 617 (95.5) | 0.10 | | Poor, near-poor households | 7 (8.6) | 29 (4.5) | | | Number of children in household (n=767) | | | | | 1 | 34 (41.5) | 341 (49.8) | 0.16 | | 2 | 42 (51.2) | 276 (40.3) | | | ≥ 3 | 6 (7.3) | 68 (9.9) | | | Residence location (n=767) | | | | | Rural | 26 (31.7) | 176 (25.7) | 0.24 | | Urban | 56 (68.3) | 509 (74.3) | |
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Chi–square, t- tests used to comparison between overweight/obesity and without overweight/obesity groups. |
