Samina Badar, Imran Saleem Channer, Muhammad Saleem Channer, Seema Yasmeen, Muhammad Farhan Saleem Channer, Suffiyan Saleem Channer, Muhammad Khaqan Saleem Channar.
Malnutrition; determinants in children between six months to five years of age in Bahawalpur.
Professional Med J Jan ;14(4):669-76.

Objective: To find-out the determinants of malnutrition in children between six months to five years age in Bahawalpur. Study Design: This was an observational descriptive cross – sectional study. Setting: At Paediatric Medicine out – patient department in Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur. Period: From Feb. 2005 to March 2007.Subjects: Eleven hundred children with malnutrition having ages six months to five years. Main outcome measures. Determinants of malnutrition in children under – 5 in Bahawalpur. Results: This study consists of 1100 sick children between the ages six months to five years brought by their parents (mother) to the Pediatric Medicine out-patient department in Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur. Only the children with malnutrition (undernutrition) were included in the study population. Mothers of these children were interviewed and clinical examination of each child was carried-out to find-out the causes of malnutrition in them. According to Gome`s classification, 39.45% of them had first degree malnutrition, 37.10%, second degree and 23.45%, third degree malnutrition. Conclusion: The major causes of malnutrition found in our study population included: Illiteracy; food fads; poverty; lack of breast-feeding; improper weaning; diarrhea and respiratory diseases. All these factors were statistically significant.

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