జర్నల్ ఆఫ్ న్యూట్రిషన్ & ఫుడ్ సైన్సెస్
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నైరూప్య

Nutritional Assessment by Anthropometric Methods under Five Years of Children’s in Tertiary Care Hospital in Peshawar, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Ikramullah Hadi, Muhammad Hasnain*, Aroob Idrees, Muntasha Imtiyaz, Muhammad Saqib Zafar, Shandana Begum

Objective: To define the effect of the role of parental care on child nutritional status and factors responsible for malnutrition in children attending Khyber teaching Hospital Peshawar Pakistan.

Method: This was a cross sectional descriptive study carried out in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar to assess the nutritional status of children under five years of age (n=200). Questionnaires were used to collect data from patients in PAEDS wards and Out-Patient departments. Data analysis was done with SPSS.

Results: In our study, 85.5% were weaned while 14.5% children had not started weaning. For infants, the type of milk/feed ingested is also important. In such study, 40.5% infants were breastfed, 15.5% were given only formula milk and 5% were given both. Out of the subjects studied, 88.5% had a proper diet plan while 11% did not. 1%, 26%, 21.5%, 49.5% and 2% of subjects had a very poor, poor, and average, good and very good appetite respectively. 78.5% subjects were vaccinated and only 25% had satisfactory house hold income. In the present study 83% individuals were not dewormed and 18% of our subjects were fed with diluted milk.

Conclusion: We found that feeding a child with formula milk rather than exclusively breastfed, feeding a child with diluted milk than standard scale provided on the bottle, delaying weaning of a child, non-satisfactory diet, improper vaccination, not deworming the child and non-satisfactory father or guardian income directly affect child nutritional Health. Concluded from our all results we can confidently say that parental care that includes most of our variables we investigated can greatly affect the child’s nutritional health.