Jahanpour Alipour, Roxana Sharifian, Javid Dehghan Haghighi, Mehrnaz Hashemzehi, Afsaneh Karimi
Patients' perceptions, experiences, and satisfaction with e-prescribing system: A cross-sectional study
International journal of medical informatics
nutritional imbalance underlying cause 26million death annually third childs death globally study assessed compared nutritional status primary school children caregivers knowledge malnutrition rural urban communities ekiti state crosssectional comparative study carried among 983 urban rural primary school children ekiti state 495 urban 488 rural using intervieweradministered semistructured questionnaire multistage sampling technique used data collected analyzed using spss 23 level statistical significance set p 005 underweight stunting relatively higher rural 65 227 respectively urban 63 194 respectively differences statistically significant p 0898 p 0197 however wasting overweight obesity higher urban 127 61 77 respectively rural 115 37 75 respectively difference statistically significant p 0242 majority caregivers settings good knowledge malnutrition though higher urban mothers 895 statistical significance rural counterparts 715 however significant association caregivers knowledge malnutrition study lower primary school class relationship caregiver educational status caregiver occupation caregiver common predictors malnutrition among school children community settings generally prevalence malnutrition high urban rural primary school children study however underweight stunting prevalent among children rural communities wasting overweight obesity prevalent urban caregivers communities good knowledge malnutrition better urban good enough bring significant relationship occurrence malnutrition children common predictors malnutrition community settings lower primary school class relationship caregiver educational status caregiver occupation caregiver therefore recommended regular continuous public enlightenment nutritional education programmes programmes targeted improving economic power caregivers measures improve nutritional status primary school children