Author:
Alamneh Tesfa Sewunet,Melesse Alemakef Wagnew,Gelaye Kassahun Alemu
Abstract
AbstractAnemia is a widespread public health problem that affects all stages of life particularly preschool children and pregnant mothers. Anemia among children had significant impact on their growth, development, school performance and mortality. Different strategies like deworming of young children, vitamin A supplementation for children aged 6–59 months, and ferrous sulphate supplementation and provision of insecticide treated bed net for pregnant women were designed to control and prevent anemia. Also, previous studies on anemia factors were conducted but they were not considering the ordered nature of anemia. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the factors of anemia severity levels among children aged 6–59 months in Ethiopia by using ordinal analysis based on Bayesian hierarchical statistical approach. A secondary data analysis was conducted using the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey data. A total of 8483 weighted children were included. Due to the ordered nature of the anemia and nested nature of DHS data, ordinal logistic regression model based on hierarchical Bayesian statistical approach was employed to identify the determinants of anemia severity levels. In this study, moderate anemia level was found to be the commonest type which accounts around 29.4%. Female children, poorer, middle, and richest wealth index, primary maternal education and having ANC visit had lower risk of having higher order of anemia. Moderate maternal anemia and stunted children had higher chance of having higher order of anemia. Children age had significant different effect on mild and moderate anemia. Meanwhile, multiple birth/s and deworming had effect on moderate anemia. In addition, normal birth weight had also significant and different effect on mild and severe anemia and history of feverlike illness on mild anemia. The prevalence of anemia among children aged 6–59 months anemia was found to be a severe public health problem. Children age, sex, maternal education, child stunting, history of fever, multiple birth, birth weight, provision of deworming and maternal anemia was found to be the most important factors for child anemia severity levels. Therefore, intervention efforts to control and prevent anemia in Ethiopia requires targeting of these hindering factors.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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