Nutritional Impact Of The Supplementary Feeding Programme On Children
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Nutritional Impact Of The Supplementary Feeding Programme On Children
ABSTRACT
This was a cross-sectional evaluation research designed to determine the nutritional impact of the supplementary feeding plan on the target group of children aged 6 months to 59 months. The study also examined other known elements (socioeconomic and demographic) that influence children’s nutritional health.
The impact of the supplementary feeding intervention was assessed using anthropometric indicators? Height-for-age, weight?for-age, and weight-for-height.
The study employed multistage sampling approaches to choose 400 infants aged 6 to 59 months from the baseline study conducted at the start of the programme in 2003, after analysing the existing baseline data.
Four hundred (400) children aged six to 59 months who were enrolled in the supplementary feeding program as of August 2007, were also chosen from each community’s beneficiary child registers.
Anthropometric measures were taken of the sampled children (post intervention), and the same information was extracted from the sampled baseline data. Mothers/caregivers of the children were interviewed, and equivalent information was extracted from the sampled baseline data.
Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Background Information. Undernutrition is the underlying cause of 53% of all deaths among children under the age of five (WHO, 2005). The prevalence of stunting (chronic undernutrition) has decreased worldwide.
In developing countries, stunting decreased from 47% in 1980 to 33% in 2000 (WHO, 2000), albeit success has been inconsistent across regions. Stunting has increased in Eastern Africa while decreasing in South-east Asia, South Central Asia, and South America.
Northern Africa and the Caribbean exhibit considerable improvement, but Western Africa and Central America show minimal gain (WHO, 2005). Despite an overall decline in stunting in poor nations, child malnutrition continues to be a major public health issue.
Stunting rates are rising in some countries, but remain unacceptably high in many others (WHO, 2003). The pattern in Africa is really distinct. The prevalence of stunting fell from 40.5% in 1980 to 35.2% in 2000
a mere 0.3 percentage points each year (WHO, 2005). Eastern Africa has the greatest rate of stunting, with 48% of preschool children affected. In this region, stunting is increasing at a rate of 0.1 percentage point every year.
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