Factors associated with height-for-age among pre-schoolers in Tabika Kemas, Putrajaya

Hasni, Nurul Madihah (2019) Factors associated with height-for-age among pre-schoolers in Tabika Kemas, Putrajaya. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: South Asia bears about 40% of global burden of stunting and the prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years old in Malaysia was rising from 17.0% in 2006 to 20.7% in 2016. Thus, this study determined that association between demographic and socio-economic factors, household food security, parental feeding practices, dietary diversity and height-for-age. Methods: A total of 207 preschoolers aged four to six years old from Tabika Kemas, Putrajaya were involved in this study. This cross-sectional study was carried out between February to April 2019. Household food security was measured using Radimer/Cornell hunger and food insecurity instrument while parental feeding practices were measured using the Child Feeding Questionnaire and adapted version of Food Agriculture Organization Diet Diversity Questionnaire was used to measure dietary diversity. Pre-schooler' s weight and height were measured using calibrated T ANITA digital weighing scale and SECA stadiometer. Result: Data were analysed using SPSS version 2 2, with p<0.05 set as level of significance. The prevalence of stunting among pre-schoolers was 10.6%. Pre-schoolers were categorised into 4 categories of household food security levels; food secure (47%), household food insecure (52.7%), individual food insecure (15.5%) and child hunger (9.2%). The mean for restriction, pressure and monitoring of parental feeding practices were 3.74 ± 0.54, 3.98 ± 0.67 and 3.89 ± 0.82 respectively. The mean for dietary diversity score (DDS) was 5.45 ± 1.20 with the highest mean was cereal and grains food group score (0.97 ±0.15), followed by flesh foods food group score (0.91 ±0.28) meanwhile the lowest mean was nuts and legumes food group score (0.30 ±0.46). There were no significant associations of demographic and socio-economic factors, household food security, parental feeding practices and dietary diversity with height-for-age among pre-schoolers. Conclusion: Prevalence of stunting could be reduced by conducting health promotion and nutrition programs to create awareness among parents related to childhood stunting

Item Type:	Project Paper
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Ms Norafizah Radzuan
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2025 08:42
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2025 08:42
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/2498

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