Author:
Gebremichael Mathewos Alemu,Mengesha Melkamu Merid,Hailegebreal Samuel,Abdulkadir Hanan,Arja Asrat,Wolde Biruk Bogale
Abstract
BackgroundChildhood overweight and obesity are emerging public health challenges of the twety-first century. There was a 24% increase in the number of overweight children under the age of 5 years in low-income countries. Despite the significant risk of childhood overweight/obesity for non-communicable diseases, premature death, disability, and reproductive disorders in their adult life, little attention has been given. Therefore, we aimed to assess the prevalence of overweight/obesity and associated factors among under-five children.MethodsThis study was conducted using data from a nationally representative sample of the 2019 Ethiopia Mini Demographic and Health Survey (EMDHS). The Mini EDHS was a community-based cross-sectional study that covered all the administrative regions of Ethiopia. The data collection was conducted between March 21, 2019 and June 28, 2019. Both descriptive and analytic findings were produced. The overweight/obesity was measured by the weight-for-height (WFH) index, more than two standard deviations (+2 SD) above the median of the reference population based on the BMI Z-score. To identify significantly assoResultsA total of 5,164 under-five children were included in this study cited factors of overweight/obesity, a multilevel binary logistic regression model was fitted to account for the hierarchical nature of the data. Adjusted odds ratio (aOR) with a corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI) was reported to show the strength of association and statistical significance. The overall prevalence of overweight/obesity was 2.14% (95% CI: 1.74–2.53). The odds of overweight/obesity was higher among children aged <6 months (aOR = 5.19; 95% CI: 2.98–9.04), 6–24 months (aOR = 1.97; 95% CI: 1.18–3.29), delivered by cesarean section (aOR = 1.75; 95% CI: 1.84–3.65), living in Addis Ababa city (aOR = 2.16; 95% CI: 1.59–7.81), Oromia region (aOR = 1.93; 95% CI: 1.71–5.24), having mothers with the age 40–49 years (aOR = 3.91; 95% CI: 1.90–16.92), uses traditional contraceptive methods (aOR = 2.63; 95% CI: 1.66–10.47) and households headed by male (aOR = 1.71; 95% CI: 1.84–3.48).ConclusionThis study showed that the prevalence of overweight/obesity among under-five was low in Ethiopia. There were several factors that affect childhood overweight/obesity including child age, maternal age, mode of delivery, sex of head of household, contraception use, and geography of residence. Therefore, strategies to reduce childhood overweight and obesity should consider an identified multitude of contributing factors.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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