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Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study

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  • Getasew Mulat Bantie
  • Amare Alamirew Aynie
  • Kidist Hailu Akenew
  • Mahlet Tilahun Belete
  • Eyerusalem Teshome Tena
  • Genet Gebreselasie Gebretsadik
  • Aynalem Nebebe Tsegaw
  • Tigist Birru Woldemariam
  • Ashenafi Abate Woya
  • Amare Alemu Melese
  • Agumas Fentahun Ayalew
  • Getenet Dessie

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Background: Stunting is a well-established child-health indicator of chronic malnutrition, which reliably gives a picture of the past nutritional history and the prevailing environmental and socioeconomic circumstances. Objective: To investigate the prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school children of the Bahir Dar city. Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out from March to June 2019. Data were coded and entered into the Epi-Data and exported to SPSS version 23 software. The pupil was stunted if the height- for-age was ≤ -2 SDs from the median growth standards according to the WHO. A descriptive summary was computed using frequency, percent, mean, median and standard deviation. A simple logistic regression model was fitted to identify associated factors between the independent variables and the dependent variable at a 95% confidence interval (CI) and p-value

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  • Getasew Mulat Bantie & Amare Alamirew Aynie & Kidist Hailu Akenew & Mahlet Tilahun Belete & Eyerusalem Teshome Tena & Genet Gebreselasie Gebretsadik & Aynalem Nebebe Tsegaw & Tigist Birru Woldemariam , 2021. "Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among public primary school pupils of Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia: School-based cross-sectional study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(4), pages 1-14, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0248108
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248108
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