TÌNH TRẠNG DINH DƯỠNG CỦA TRẺ TỪ 2 - 60 THÁNG TUỔI TẠI TRUNG TÂM NHI KHOA, BỆNH VIỆN TRUNG ƯƠNG THÁI NGUYÊN

Abstract

Objective: This study aims to describe the nutritional status of 2 months to 60 months of age children in center of pediatric at Thai Nguyen National General Hospital in 2023 - 2024. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 395 children from 2-60 months of age during the 2024-2025 year. Gathering data through face-to-face interviews and written questionnaires, including demographics, weight, high to assess of the nutritional status of anthropometric measurements were taken and the WHO Anthro software was used to convert it to nutritional data indices. Descriptive statistics were used for the profiling of the different variables while bivariate analysis, and odds ratios were used to correlate the different variables to the nutrition status of the children. Data were analyzed using SPSS 23.00 version. Results: The overall malnutrition rate was 37.1%, the overweight or obesity rate was 7.1%. When classified by age group, the highest rate of malnutrition was in the 49 - 60 monthsgroup at 55.6%, the next group was 37-48 months at 47.4%. The rate of overweight and obesity was in the 2 - 6 months group (15.2%) and the 7-12 months group (10.1%). When classified by gender, 34.8% of boys were malnourished, 17.2% of girls were malnourished. The rate of overweight and obesity in boys was 7.5%, slightly higher than that of girls (6.5%). The classifying malnutrition, stunting malnutrition had the highest rate at 29.3%, underweight malnutrition at 10.9% and wasting malnutrition at 10.6%. Conclusions: The high prevalence of stunting, underweight and wasting among children under 5 years in these areas.