Maternal Nutritional Status Determined by BMI is an Important Predictor of CIAF of the Santal Children
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Department of Nutrition and Department of NSS, Raja Narendralal Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), Midnapore - 721 101 ,IN
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Department of Home Science (Food and Nutrition), University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700 073 ,INBinata Nayak
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https://doi.org/10.21048/IJND.2024.61.3.33907Keywords:
BMI, CIAF, stunting, tribe, undernutrition, nutritional status, childrenAbstract
Undernutrition was generally common in tribal society. Mother and children are the most nutritionally deprived group among the Santal and the major tribal group in West Bengal, India. A very few studies have been done to focus the nutritional status of the Santal children as well as their mother. The purpose of the current study was to examine the nutritional status of Santal children and its relationship with the nutritional status of mothers of those children. This community based cross sectional study was carried out on 183 children (boys: 92 and girls: 91) within the age group 24-59 months and their mothers belonging to Santal tribes residing in rural areas of Paschim Medinipur District in West Bengal. Mother’s nutritional status was evaluated by the Body Mass Index (BMI) of the mother. Underweight, stunting, wasting and Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) used to study the children’s nutritional status. Statistical analysis was performed for evaluation of association amongst individuals, group or set of data. Occurrence of underweight, stunting, wasting and CIAF among the Santal children were 38.25, 30.05, 23.50 and 51.37% respectively. It was observed that 38.25% of mothers of these preschool children were suffering from underweight. This study clearly indicated that maternal nutritional status is significantly associated with children’s underweight (χ2=6.681;P<0.05) and CIAF (χ2=9.330;P<0.01). The maternal BMI is positively associated with the WAZ (r=0.259; P<0.001), HAZ (r=0.157; P<0.05), WHZ (r=0.171; P<0.05) and BAZ (r=0.147;P<0.05) of the children. Nutritional state of the mother remains a significant predictor of the nutritional status of their children even beyond the lactation phase.
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