Abstract
supports other findings in which decreased educational years (p1⁄40.019, Fisher’s Exact test) and decreased BMI of the mother (p1⁄4 0.009, Fisher’s Exact test) relates to more severe childhood malnutrition. Interpretation: Due to small sample size, low power of the analysis, and other limitations, we cannot draw conclusions on the relationship between maternal age at marriage and childhood malnutrition, but we do see that, even with this underestimated number, 62.96% of the mothers married under the age of 18 (the legal marrying age for Bangladeshi females). The child, mother, and household characteristics we studied allow us to have a holistic perspective on the social situations of hospitalized children at icddr,b. Future study with large sample and adequate power may help in further understanding the health of the mother in obtaining gravidity and parity and the child through collecting health outcomes of the hospitalized children. Funding: Provided by the Stanford Medical Scholars Fellowship Program. Core Donors of icddr,b financially support the hospital and patient care and include: Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (GoB), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), TheDepartment for International Development, UK (DFID), and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Abstract #: 02SEDH016
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