Abstract
ObjectiveThis study aimed to assess the association between dietary diversity and nutritional status of adolescents in Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia. A secondary data was used to assess the association between dietary diversity and nutritional status of adolescents in Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia. Adolescents in the age of 13–17 years old included in the analysis. The data cleaned, coded and analyzed using Stata version 14.ResultsOver all prevalence of stunting and thinness were 26.1% and 25.3%. Stunting was higher among female adolescents (23.8%) than male (21.9%), while thinness was higher among male (27.5%) than female (25.3%) adolescents. In multivariate binary logistic regression model, being female adolescents were 98% (AOR = 1.98; 95% CI 1.6, 2.4] higher odd of stunted compared with those male adolescents, households had food insecurity were 67% [AOR = 1.67; 95% CI 0.6, 0.9] more likely to be associated with stunted than with those households which had secure foods. Adolescents who had high workload were 2.6 times [AOR = 2.6; 95% CI 1.2, 3.1] more likely to be associated with thinness compared with those adolescents who didn’t had high workload.
Highlights
In, 2017 international report indicated that 1.8 billion estimated adolescents were live, from these 90% of them were from Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) [1]
In multivariate binary logistic regression model, being female adolescents were 98%
Adolescents who had high workload were 2.6 times [adjusted odd ratio (AOR) = 2.6; 95% CI 1.2, 3.1] more likely to be associated with thinness compared with those adolescents who didn’t had high workload
Summary
Socio‐demographic characteristics of the study participants A total of 2084 participants were interviewed: 1059 (50.8%) were boys with a mean age of 14.78 years and a standard deviation of 1.34. After adjusted binary logistic regression analysis, rural adolescents had 83% [AOR = 1.83; 95% CI 1.2, 3.1] higher odds of being stunted compared with those adolescents who resided in urban areas. During adjusted binary logistic regression analysis, adolescents who had high workloads were 2.6 times [AOR = 2.6; 95% CI 1.2, 3.1] more likely to be associated with thinness compared with those adolescents who didn’t had high workloads. Household food insecurity those insecure households had 80% [AOR = 1.8; 95% CI 0.6, 0.8] higher odds of being thinness compared with those household which secured food.
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