Heidi A Vuletich, Beth Kurtz-Costes, Erin Cooley, B Keith Payne
Math and language gender stereotypes: Age and gender differences in implicit biases and explicit beliefs
PloS one
underweight public health problem globally severe south sudan wide subregional differences nimule border town represents border towns south sudan data underweight among children two years unavailable thus study set assess predictors underweight among children younger 24 months nimule border town magwi county eastern equatoria state south sudan analytical crosssectional study conducted nimule boarder town targeting 390 children younger two years systematic sampling simple random sampling methods used data collected researcheradministered questionnaire open closed ended questions data entered epidata exported statistical package social sciences research spss version 20 analysis descriptive data analysis conducted data summarized frequencies percentages means standard deviations medians interquartile ranges bivariate analysis conducted chisquared fishers exact tests categorical independent variables students ttest numerical variables finally multivariate analysis done via logistic regression analysis results stated odds ratios corresponding 95 confidence interval ci level statistical significance set 5 total 390 participants 112 287 weight study showed primary aor 038 95 ci 012118 p 0095 secondary aor 037 95 ci 012117 p 0091 levels education associated underweight tertiary level education aor 076 95 ci 021274 p 0671 household income 5000 10000 aor 026 95 ci 010068 p 0006 10000 aor 011 95 ci 004028 p 0001 south sudanese pounds supplementary feeding 6 months aor 001 95 ci 002005 p 0001 associated underweight irregular hand washing aor 217 95 ci 114411 p 0018 associated increased odds underweight study established high prevalence underweight maternal level education particularly primary secondary higher household incomes excess 5000 south sudanese pounds reduced risk underweight irregular hand washing risk factor underweight