Nutritional status of under-five children born to teenage mothers in an urban setting, south-western Nigeria
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Monday Daniel Olodu; Adewunmi Grace Adeyemi; Samuel Anu Olowookere; Olapeju Adefunke Esimai
- Source
- BMC Research Notes, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2019)
- Subject
- Nutritional status
Teenage mothers
Breastfeeding practice
Under-fives
Medicine
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Science (General)
Q1-390
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1756-0500
Abstract Objective There have been many studies on the nutritional status of under-fives and factors responsible but very few looks at this special group of women. This study assessed the breastfeeding practices of teenage mothers and determined its association with the nutritional indices of their under-five children. The study was a descriptive cross-sectional survey. A total of 300 mother–child pair was selected using a multi-stage sampling technique from Primary Health Care centres in Ondo West Local Government Area, Ondo State, Nigeria. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were done to identify predictors’ of poor nutritional status at p