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ArticleWomen's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.)2023

Nutritional Status and Associated Factors Among School Adolescent Girls in North Shoa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Sisay Shine Tegegnework, Behailu Tariku Derseh, Wondoson Asegdew Meseret, Abayneh Birlie Zeru, Hilina Ketema Assefa, Awraris Hailu Bilchut, Sindew Mahmud Ahmed

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Article in Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Sisay Shine TegegneworkPublic Health Department, Institute of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8754-303X
Behailu Tariku DersehPublic Health Department, Institute of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
Wondoson Asegdew MeseretPublic Health Department, Institute of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
Abayneh Birlie ZeruPublic Health Department, Institute of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
Hilina Ketema AssefaNursing Department, Institute of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
Awraris Hailu BilchutPublic Health Department, Institute of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
Sindew Mahmud AhmedNursing Department, Minlik II College of Medicine and Health Science, Kotebe Metropolitan University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Debre Berhan University · ETKotebe University of Education · ET

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Abstract

Background: Adolescents are the most affected group and the group that is least studied when it comes to malnutrition, which is one of the most important public health concerns in underdeveloped countries, including Ethiopia. Therefore, the goal of this study was to assess nutritional status and related factors among teenage females who are in school. Materials and Methods: From October 1 to October 25, 2018, 645 young girls in school participated in an institution-based cross-sectional study. Girls in their teen years from the school were selected using a simple random sample method. Anthropometric tests and in-person interviews were used to collect the data. An odds ratio with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) and a Results: This study found that 12.3% and 9.6% of school adolescent girls were stunted and thin, respectively. Being a rural resident (adjusted odd ratio [AOR]: 1.85, 95% CI: 1.05-3.28) and inadequate dietary diversity score (AOR: 3.02, 95% CI: 1.06-4.60) were significant predictors of stunting. School adolescent girls from merchant father were 71% less likely to develop stunting compared with government employee father. Late adolescent age (AOR: 2.27, 95% CI: 1.28-4.02) and family size ≥5 (AOR: 1.98, 95% CI: 1.05-3.75) were significant predictors of thinness. Conclusions: Stunting and thinness were the major public health problems among school adolescent girls in the study area. Being a rural resident and inadequate dietary diversity increases the risk of stunting. However, being late adolescent girl and large family size were risk factors for thinness. There was a need for a school-based instruction program that concentrated on a varied diet and methods of encouraging the adolescent girls' appetites.

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adolescent girlsEthiopianutritional statusstuntingthinness

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