Jayalakshmi Rajeev, Kannan Srinivasan
Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, Kerala, India.
Indian J Community Med. 2019 Jul-Sep;44(3):199-204. doi: 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_127_18.
Change in stunting as the children grow older is rarely found in published literature.
The present paper compares the change in the prevalence of stunting among children as they grow from 0-4 years to 7-11 years.
The present paper is a secondary analysis of India Human Development Survey-I (IHDS-I) (2005) and IHDS-II (2012) data for Kerala.
In total, 411 children of age 0-4 years and 390 children of age 7-11 years with anthropometric measurements were included in the present study, respectively, from IHDS-I and IHDS-II.
The statistical analyses were done using SPSS 21.0. The prevalence of stunting was estimated. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were performed using the Pearson Chi-square test.
The prevalence of stunting among children has been drastically reduced (50.4% to 20.3%) while growing older from 0-4 years to 7-11 years.
More than half of the stunted children below 5 years regained normal growth, as they grow older.
在已发表的文献中,很少能发现儿童发育迟缓状况随年龄增长的变化情况。
本文比较了儿童从0至4岁成长到7至11岁期间发育迟缓患病率的变化。
本文是对印度喀拉拉邦人类发展调查一(IHDS-I)(2005年)和调查二(IHDS-II)(2012年)数据的二次分析。
本研究分别从IHDS-I和IHDS-II中纳入了411名0至4岁且有人体测量数据的儿童以及390名7至11岁且有人体测量数据的儿童。
使用SPSS 21.0进行统计分析。估算发育迟缓患病率。使用Pearson卡方检验进行双变量和多变量分析。
儿童从0至4岁成长到7至11岁期间,发育迟缓患病率大幅降低(从50.4%降至20.3%)。
超过半数5岁以下发育迟缓儿童随着年龄增长恢复了正常生长。