Nutritional Status of a Group of Children Under Five Suffering from Malaria in a Timor Leste District
<strong>Background:</strong> Malaria is a health problem in underdeveloped countries. The child population is particularly vulnerable. <br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to determine the nutritional status of children under five suffering from malaria who attended a clin...
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| author | Anagalys Ortega Alvelay Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola Sol Esther García Morales Denis Monzón Vega Mabel Vega Galindo |
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| description | <strong>Background:</strong> Malaria is a health problem in underdeveloped countries. The child population is particularly vulnerable. <br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to determine the nutritional status of children under five suffering from malaria who attended a clinic in Timor Leste. <br /><strong>Method:</strong> a descriptive, correlational study was conducted. The sample consisted of 435 children under five years old, diagnosed with malaria, who attended consultation from June 2008 to July 2009. Nutritional status was evaluated. A medical history demographic, socioeconomic and Plasmodium type data was obtained. <br /><strong>Results:</strong> 254 children (58.4%) were in the group from 2 to 4 years old. Most children (415, 95.4%) had no toilet or piped water in their homes. The average number of people living in the house is 8.3; 5.6 per room. Females were predominant with 50.3%, as well as rural children 402 (92.4%). Most children (84.6%) are undernourished. Statistical relationship was found between nutritional status and age (X2 = 7.44, df = 1, p = 0.01) and nutritional status and sex (X2 = 14.37, df = 1, p = 0, 01). A higher frequency of moderate malnutrition was observed in children with malaria (41; 61.2%). Plasmodium vivax was highly frequent, being present in 299 children (68.7%). <br /><strong>Conclusion:</strong> children from 0 to 1 year of age are 2 to 4 times more likely to experience malnutrition. Females are between 2 and 5 times more likely to be undernourished than other children with malaria. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-380f62513475430ca1e11dca32b234892025-01-30T21:28:43ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2011-03-0191711710Nutritional Status of a Group of Children Under Five Suffering from Malaria in a Timor Leste DistrictAnagalys Ortega Alvelay0Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola1Sol Esther García Morales2Denis Monzón Vega3Mabel Vega Galindo4Area II Policlinic. Cienfuegos.General University Hospital "Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima". Cienfuegos.Provincial Hospital "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado". Pinar del Río.University of Medical Sciences. Cienfuegos.Provincial Centre of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology. Cienfuegos.<strong>Background:</strong> Malaria is a health problem in underdeveloped countries. The child population is particularly vulnerable. <br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to determine the nutritional status of children under five suffering from malaria who attended a clinic in Timor Leste. <br /><strong>Method:</strong> a descriptive, correlational study was conducted. The sample consisted of 435 children under five years old, diagnosed with malaria, who attended consultation from June 2008 to July 2009. Nutritional status was evaluated. A medical history demographic, socioeconomic and Plasmodium type data was obtained. <br /><strong>Results:</strong> 254 children (58.4%) were in the group from 2 to 4 years old. Most children (415, 95.4%) had no toilet or piped water in their homes. The average number of people living in the house is 8.3; 5.6 per room. Females were predominant with 50.3%, as well as rural children 402 (92.4%). Most children (84.6%) are undernourished. Statistical relationship was found between nutritional status and age (X2 = 7.44, df = 1, p = 0.01) and nutritional status and sex (X2 = 14.37, df = 1, p = 0, 01). A higher frequency of moderate malnutrition was observed in children with malaria (41; 61.2%). Plasmodium vivax was highly frequent, being present in 299 children (68.7%). <br /><strong>Conclusion:</strong> children from 0 to 1 year of age are 2 to 4 times more likely to experience malnutrition. Females are between 2 and 5 times more likely to be undernourished than other children with malaria.http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/1492timor lesteniñoestado nutricionaltrastornos de la nutrición del niñoprevalenciamalaria |
| spellingShingle | Anagalys Ortega Alvelay Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola Sol Esther García Morales Denis Monzón Vega Mabel Vega Galindo Nutritional Status of a Group of Children Under Five Suffering from Malaria in a Timor Leste District Medisur timor leste niño estado nutricional trastornos de la nutrición del niño prevalencia malaria |
| title | Nutritional Status of a Group of Children Under Five Suffering from Malaria in a Timor Leste District |
| title_full | Nutritional Status of a Group of Children Under Five Suffering from Malaria in a Timor Leste District |
| title_fullStr | Nutritional Status of a Group of Children Under Five Suffering from Malaria in a Timor Leste District |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nutritional Status of a Group of Children Under Five Suffering from Malaria in a Timor Leste District |
| title_short | Nutritional Status of a Group of Children Under Five Suffering from Malaria in a Timor Leste District |
| title_sort | nutritional status of a group of children under five suffering from malaria in a timor leste district |
| topic | timor leste niño estado nutricional trastornos de la nutrición del niño prevalencia malaria |
| url | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/1492 |
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