Etiyopya'daki Çocukların Yetersiz Beslenme Durumu: Kısmi Oransal Odds Modelinin Uygulaması

Abstract

ABS TRACT Objective: Malnutrition is one of the most important causes for improper physical and mental development of children. The aim of the study was to describe severity status of children malnutrition and identify factors affecting the nutritional status for under age five Ethiopian chil dren. Material and Methods: A partial proportional odds model was fitted using 2011 EDHS data by categorizing the undernutritional status into three levels in order of increasing of severity. The par tial proportional odds models perform consistently better than the other two models (POM and BLR). By using partial proportional odds models, the interpretation of the parameters allows bet ter insight concerning contributing factors, i.e., it revealed the increasing malnutrition severity due to age categories of children and incidence of diarrhea in the last two weeks before the survey. Results: The significant factors affecting the severity status of children malnutrition cover demo graphic, socio-economic, and health related factors: age of child, sex of child, birth order, education of mother and father, wealth status of household, place of residence, mother’s nutritional status, in cidence of diarrhea and fever. Mother’s education level has been identified as the most significant factor influencing children malnutrition. Conclusion: Thus, based on these findings more efficient countermeasures can be developed to mitigate children malnutrition severity. Furthermore, the influence of these factors can be used in the development of strategies of intervention for reducing severity of child malnutrition.