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Dr.
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DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2019.93623
Original Contribution
Self-monitoring
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An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study
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Ahmed S. Alzahrani, Rishi K. Bharti, Hassan
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White
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reactant in the body
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Muftuoglu, Mehmet Gundogdu, Abdulrazak Abyad,
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Case Report
An
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Population and Community
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Prevalence
of abdominal obesity and its associated comorbid
condition in adult Yemeni people of Sana’a
City
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Smoking
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Systematic
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Nutritional Assessment of under
Five years Children in Mygoma Orphanage Home,
Sudan
Niemat Mohammed Tahir
Ali (1,4)
Ibraheem Gamereldawlla (2)
Abubaker Mohammed Fadl Almaola (1)
Alam ELdin Musa Mustafa (3,4)
(1) MD Pediatrics, Sudan
Medical Specialization Board, Sudan
(2) DCH, DTCH,MRCPCH, FCRP , Faculty of Medicine,
University of Khartoum, Sudan
(3) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,
University of Kordofan, Al-Ubayyid, Sudan
(4) Child Health Department, College of Medicine,
King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia
Corresponding author:
Dr. Alam ELdin Musa Mustafa
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,
University of Kordofan, Al-Ubayyid, Sudan
Email: alameldinmustafa641@gmail.com
Received: December 2018; Accepted: January 2019;
Published: February 1, 2019
Citation: Niemat Mohammed Tahir Ali et al. Nutritional
Assessment of under Five years Children in Mygoma
Orphanage Home, Sudan. World Family Medicine.
2019; 17(2): 20-28 DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2019.93613
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Abstract
Background: Adequate nutrition
during infancy and early childhood is
essential to ensure the growth, health,
and development of children to their full
potential. Malnutrition is globally the
most important risk factor for illness
and death, contributing to more than half
of deaths in children worldwide. Orphanages
are one alternative for the survival of
children without parents able to care
for them. Attention to them, support of
their activities, and improvement of the
living conditions there are all important.
The orphan children are the most vulnerable
section to malnutrition in our society.
Causes of death of children placed in
orphanages are largely preventable and
thousands of children can be saved if
their nutritional needs are catered for.
Objective:
To assess the nutritional status in relation
to clinical presentations, anthropometrical
measurements and hemoglobin level and
to determine the adequacy of food given
in energy in orphan children under 5 years
old at Mygoma orphanage in Sudan.
Materials and Methods: This Cross-sectional,
descriptive, institution based study includes
123 children living in Mygoma orphanage
during the study time. The planning of
the study included the development of
questionnaires in order to determine nutritional
status and food offered, then to perform
anthropometric measurements and take a
sample for hemoglobin level.
Results:
Although the energy was adequate in 100%
of the population according to the caloric
requirement of each age group, underweight,
< -2 SD was found in 30 children (24.4%).
Severe underweight, -3 SD was found in
59 children (48%). When assessing height/length
for age, Stunting (chronic malnutrition),
<-2 SD was found in 25 orphans (20.3%),
and severe stunting was found in 31 (25.2%).
In regard to weight for height/length:
Wasting (acute malnutrition) <-2 SD
was found in 23 (18.70%), while severe
wasting<-3 SD was found in 53 (43.10%).
41.5% of the children in Mygoma were symptomatic.
Investigating hemoglobin level revealed
that all children in the early neonatal
period (<7 days) had below normal levels.
Conclusion:
The incidence of malnutrition is high
in Mygoma orphanage. Further studies are
needed to determine the causes of malnutrition
in this section of the community.
Key words:
Nutritional assessment, Children, Orphanage
home, Mygoma, Sudan
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