Factors Associated with Acute Malnutrition among Children Admitted to a Diarrhoea Treatment Facility in Bangladesh
Table 2
Characteristics (attributes) of the cases (wasted) and controls (nonwasted) children.
Variable
Case
Control
value
Child’s age > 1 year: (%)
67 (37.6)
62 (22.9)
0.001
Girls: (%)
74 (41.6)
99 (36.5)
0.283
Did not receive BCG: (%)
5 (2.8)
1 (0.4)
0.038
Did not receive pentavalent/polio vaccine (or received less than age appropriate doses): (%)
16 (9.0)
23 (8.5)
0.984
Did not receive measles vaccine (among >9 months old; cases and 142 controls): (%)
31 (28.4)
26 (18.3)
0.041
Predominant breastfeeding stopped before 4 months: (%)
76 (42.7)
85 (31.4)
0.010
Teenaged mother (<20 years): (%)
23 (13.4)
21 (7.9)
0.045
Shorter mother (height < 1.5 meters): (%)
86 (54.4)
110 (44.5)
0.033
Undernourished mother (BMI < 18.5): (%)
52 (32.5)
37 (14.9)
<0.001
Illiterate or less educated (<5 years’ schooling) mother: (%)
101 (56.7)
88 (32.5)
<0.001
Mother working outside of the home: (%)
15 (8.4)
12 (4.4)
0.063
Divorced/widowed mother: (%)
16 (9.0)
3 (1.1)
<0.001
Younger father (age < 25 years): (%)
44 (25.4)
37 (14.3)
0.003
Illiterate or less educated (<5 years’ schooling) father: (%)
92 (52.6)
72 (27.0)
<0.001
Father with low-paid job: (%) (e.g., rickshaw puller or day labourer): (%)
149 (83.7)
139 (51.3)
<0.001
Monthly income < 10000 takaa: (%)
121 (70.3)
136 (51.5)
<0.001
Using unsanitary latrine: (%)
10 (5.6)
3 (1.1)
0.006
Child worn any thread or amulet: (%)
94 (53.1)
157 (57.9)
0.331
Child worn kajalb at the side of fore head: (%)
139 (78.1)
219 (80.8)
0.549
All data are expressed as number (%). aTaka (Bangladeshi currency: 1 UD$ = 80 taka, average rate during the study period); ba black mark/line used over eyelash by females and side of forehead in some children in Indo-Pak subcontinent.
