Effect of socio-demographic conditions on growth of urban school children of Bangladesh.
The relationship between socio-demographic variables and growth of 242 school children from five schools in Dhaka city, Bangladesh, was investigated. The socio-demographic data were collected by questionnaire and the anthropometric data were collected by visits to each school on a prefixed date. Children from the high-family-income group showed significantly higher body weight, height, MUAC, SFT, wt/age, and ht/age compared with children from the low-family-income group. When the effect of age, sex, father's occupation and family size were adjusted for by means of multiple analysis of variance, the family income still showed a significant contribution to the variation in the anthropometric indices of these children. These findings suggest that family income makes a significant contribution as a determinant of growth of urban school children in Bangladesh.
Ahmed
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Institute of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Bhuyan
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Shaheen
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Barua
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Margetts
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Jackson
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D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000886:Anthropometry; D001459:Bangladesh; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D009790:Occupations; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population