ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2019
Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among 6 to 23 months old children in the Sahel Region of Burkina Faso.
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- Wasting and its associated factors among under-two years children in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- [KAP' (Knowledge Attitude Practices) survey of the population and health professionals regarding oral health and noma in 2012 in the Sahel region, Burkina Faso].Medecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2025Article
- Wasting and Its Associated Nutritional and Non-Nutritional Factors among Under-Five Children in Marrakesh Province, Morocco.Portuguese journal of public health · 2024Article
- Climate change and health in the Sahel: a systematic review.Royal Society open science · 2024Review
- A systematic review of dietary data collection methodologies for diet diversity indicators.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- The level of wasting and associated factors among children aged 6-59 months in sub-Saharan African countries: multilevel ordinal logistic regression analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
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- Minimum meal frequency practice and associated factors among children aged 6-23 months old in The Gambia: a multilevel mixed effect analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among children aged 2-5 years, southern Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.BMC nutrition · 2022Article
- Determinants of undernutrition among young children in Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Determinants of wasting among under-five children in Ethiopia: Multilevel ordinal logistic regression analysis of EDHS 2016.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Minimum Meal Frequency Practice and Its Associated Factors among Children Aged 6 to 23 Months in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Global pediatric health · 2021Review
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Abstract
introductionDespite the efforts of nutrition stakeholders in Burkina Faso to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, the country is still struggling to stem undernutrition. Wasting, or acute malnutrition, is the form of malnutrition that has the most harmful short-term consequences for children. The objective of our study was to estimate the prevalence of wasting in children aged 6-23 months in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso and to identify its associated factors.
methodsWe conducted a secondary analysis of data from the 2015 National Nutrition Survey. The factors associated with wasting in the studied population were identified using a logistic regression.
resultsA total of 956 children participated in the study. The prevalence of wasting was 25% (95% CI [22.28, 27.87]) in the Sahel region. Only 24.37% of children received a minimum meal frequency and 13.38% received a minimum dietary diversification the day before the survey. In the multivariate analysis, being male (aOR = 1.99; 95% CI [1.46, 2.72]), breastfeeding the day before the survey (aOR = 2.43; 95% CI [1.13, 5.22]), and having a history of illness (aOR = 2.32; 95% CI [1.67, 3.21]) significantly increased the risk of acute malnutrition.
conclusionIn 2015, the prevalence of wasting among children was high in the Sahel region and good IYCF practices were still inadequate. There is an urgent need to implement good IYCF practices and strengthen interventions to improve infant health in this region.
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