NUTRITIONAL INADEQUACY ASSOCIATED WITH PHYSICAL GROWTH OF CHILDREN IN POOR URBAN AREAS

Abstract

Malnutrition implies disparity of nutrients and energy in corporal status among children and grownups. Malnutrition abolition, in its all forms, is designated as second Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) of United Nations (WHO, 2017). Occurrence of under nutrition (stunting, wasting and underweight) produces more chances of sickness and decease among children (UNICEF, 2019). A large number of reports discussed the aspects of malnutrition, guardians and caretakers, and applied various methods and data packages on different age classes, such as less than 5 years old, 5 to 10 years old, and 5 to 12 years old. In this study, researcher used the quantitative data techniques and the domain of present study consisted of high-risk union councils of Faisalabad. Four union councils; 209,210,211 and 212 were selected. Convenient Sampling Technique (CST) was used for the selection of respondents as well as localities for the present study. Sample size was 200 children from four union councils i.e. 50 children from each union council were selected. In this study, a significant (χ2 = 11.21, p = .024) association among Mother’s level of education and stunting among children, non-significant (χ2 = 7.14, p = .129) association among Mother’s level of education and control over wasting among children and a non-significant (χ2 = 7.08, p = .132) association among Mother’s level of education and weight for age of the children were considered.