Mac Corquodale D W, Rondón de Nova H
Arch Latinoam Nutr. 1977 Dec;27(4):505-19.
This report describes the differences in social and demographic characteristics of 82 mothers with a severely malnourished child under the age of five years and those of 82 mothers with a healthy child matched by age, sex, and neighborhood of residence. The mothers of the healthy children had a mean parity of 4.7 live births. There was no significant difference in the proportion of women in the two groups currently using contraception, but more women of the control group had undergone one or more spontaneous or induced abortions. More children of the control group had been immunized against one one or more communicable diseases than the children of the case group. The proportion of children of school age attending school was greater on the part of the children in the control group than the children of the case group although the difference was not significant (p = 0.06). Despite the authors' efforts to assure that the women of the control group were selected from the same socioeconomic class as the women of the case group, there was some evidence that the women of the control group enjoyed somewhat higher family incomes.
本报告描述了82名有5岁以下严重营养不良儿童的母亲与82名年龄、性别和居住社区相匹配的有健康儿童的母亲在社会和人口特征方面的差异。健康儿童的母亲平均生育4.7个存活子女。两组中目前使用避孕措施的女性比例没有显著差异，但对照组中更多女性经历过一次或多次自然流产或人工流产。对照组中接受过一种或多种传染病免疫接种的儿童比病例组的儿童更多。对照组中适龄上学儿童的比例高于病例组儿童，尽管差异不显著（p = 0.06）。尽管作者努力确保对照组女性与病例组女性来自相同的社会经济阶层，但有证据表明对照组女性的家庭收入略高。
