title: Assessment of Under Nutrition Using Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) amongst Toddlers Residing in Urban Slums of Raipur City, Chhattisgarh, India.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Several indicators have been used for measurement of under nutrition in the past. They are overlapping and none individually provide a comprehensive number of under nourished in the community. The effort has been to discuss the use of an alternative indicator of malnutrition - the composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To study the prevalence of under nutrition of Toddlers using CIAF and compare the prevalence of under nutrition obtained by primitive indicators and CIAF.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional community based study was carried out in urban slums of Raipur (C.G) during Jan 01,2014 to Sept 30, 2014 using sample size of 602. Slums were selected by multistage random sampling and the subjects were selected by convenient sampling, i.e. starting from a random point house to house survey was carried out until desired number of subjects (According to PPS) were covered assuming that slum population is evenly distributed. Attendant of Toddlers were interviewed with semi structured proforma and Height and Weight were measured by measuring tape and Salter's weighing machine respectively. Informed consent was obtained. MS excel was used for data analysis after compilation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Girls and boys were 50% each. By CIAF the prevalence of under nutrition was found to be 62.1% while, Underweight, Stunting and Wasting showed it to be 45.2%, 46.6% and 17.8% respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Primitive indices under estimate the burden of under nutrition and CIAF should be used a screening tool for assessing under nutrition.
authors.affiliation: PG Scholar, Department of Community Medicine, Pt. J N M Medical College , Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India .
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Boregowda
authors.affiliation: Professor and HOD, Department of Community Medicine, Pt. J N M Medical College , Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India .
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Soni
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Pt. J N M Medical College , Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India .
authors.forename: Kamlesh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Pt. J N M Medical College , Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India .
authors.forename: Shubhra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agrawal
keywords: Anthropometric failure; Composite Index; Indicators of Under nutrition; Toddlers, Under nutrition