Sonowal Anujyoti, Chandak Alaka Omprakash, Muraleedharan Manesh
Symbiosis Centre for Research and Innovation, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Symbiosis Centre of Healthcare, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Indian J Community Med. 2025 Aug;50(Suppl 1):S64-S69. doi: 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_531_23. Epub 2025 Apr 17.
In Assam, India, 33% of children under the age of five are underweight, according to the National Family Health Survey-5 statistics. The Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project also discovered that 68% of Assam's children between the ages of 6 and 59 months are anemic. The goal of this study was to determine how socioeconomic and environmental factors affected the body mass index (BMI) of children in Assam, India, between the ages of 3 and 6 years old.
385 kids had their anthropometric measurements taken. With a 5% margin of error and a 95% confidence interval, this sample size was calculated. To find statistically significant features, the collected data were analyzed using univariate Chi-square tests and multivariate regression analysis.
Gender, parental employment status, lifestyle, and socio-economic conditions had statistically significant associations with different factors affecting children's BMI. In our study, no relationship was observed between BMI and the population density of the child living premises.
This study emphasizes the importance of gender, lifestyle, and socioeconomic status as major determinants of nutritional health among children in Assam. Such findings highlight the need for more targeted interventions that may help reduce such influence, hence improving child health in the region. The fact that living area density does not correlate with BMI suggests that future policy efforts may be made more useful when focusing on the quality of the socio-economic environment rather than on features of the physical location of living areas.
根据《国家家庭健康调查-5》的统计数据，在印度阿萨姆邦，33%的五岁以下儿童体重不足。阿萨姆邦农业综合企业与农村转型项目还发现，在阿萨姆邦6至59个月大的儿童中，68%患有贫血。本研究的目的是确定社会经济和环境因素如何影响印度阿萨姆邦3至6岁儿童的体重指数（BMI）。
对385名儿童进行了人体测量。计算得出该样本量的误差幅度为5%，置信区间为95%。使用单因素卡方检验和多元回归分析对收集到的数据进行分析，以找出具有统计学意义的特征。
性别、父母就业状况、生活方式和社会经济状况与影响儿童BMI的不同因素在统计学上具有显著关联。在我们的研究中，未观察到BMI与儿童居住场所的人口密度之间存在关联。
本研究强调了性别、生活方式和社会经济地位作为阿萨姆邦儿童营养健康主要决定因素的重要性。这些发现凸显了需要采取更有针对性的干预措施，以帮助减少此类影响，从而改善该地区儿童的健康状况。居住区域密度与BMI无关这一事实表明，未来的政策努力在关注社会经济环境质量而非居住区域地理位置特征时可能会更有成效。
