Nutritional Status of Children under Five Years of Age among Internally Displaced Populations and Non-displaced in Burkina Faso

Sibiri Bougma^{1, 2}, Fatoumata Hama-Ba^1, , Franck Garanet³ and Aly Savadogo²

¹Department Technologie Alimentaire, Institut de Recherche en Sciences Appliquées et Technologies, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

²Laboratoire de Biochimie et Immunologie Appliquées, Département de Biochimie et Microbiologie, Université Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

³Institut de Recherche en Science de la Santé, Kaya, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Burkina Faso

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Sibiri Bougma, Fatoumata Hama-Ba, Franck Garanet and Aly Savadogo. Nutritional Status of Children under Five Years of Age among Internally Displaced Populations and Non-displaced in Burkina Faso. Journal of Food and Nutrition Research. 2022; 10(7):449-458. doi: 10.12691/jfnr-10-7-2

Abstract

The objective of this study was to assess the nutritional status of displaced and non-displaced children in a context of security crisis in North Center of Burkina Faso. The study population comprised 205 internally displaced children and 167 non-displaced children, all aged 6 to 59 months, and their mothers/primary caregivers living in the commune of Kaya in North Center of Burkina Faso. Children were selected using a two-stage cluster sampling procedure. This cross-sectional study was carried out between June-July 2020. Demographic characteristics, child nutrition and health status, and maternal and household information were collected from mothers through interviews. The distribution of different nutritional status, such as underweight, stunting and wasting and malnutrition-related factors was analyze. The overall prevalent rates of underweight, wasting and stunting were 20.4%, 13.7% and 33.6%, respectively. In the group of displaced children, these were 21.5%, 12.2% and 37.1%, while in the non-displaced, they were 19.2%, 15.6% and 29.3%, respectively. The mean nutritional indices were found to be significantly lower among the displaced children than non-displaced (P<0.001). The present study revealed that in the multivariate analysis, diarrhoea and ARI, mother’s BMI < 18.5 kg/m², LBW < 2.5 kg, household size of five and above using a latrine and source of drinking water were positively associated with malnutrition of children in both communities. Prevention of malnutrition should be given a high priority in the implementation of the ongoing primary health care programmes with particular attention paid to the displaced populations.

Keywords:
children insecurity context malnutrition mothers food practices

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