Md Motiur Rahman

Sheikh Sayera Khatun Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh

Title: Maternal employment and nutritional status of preschool children

Abstract

Background: The early childhood development is most crucial and the mother’s care and attention is essential. The purpose of the study was to compare the nutritional status of preschool children between employed and unemployed mothers.

Method & Materials: The comparative cross sectional study was conducted among 400 children aged fewer than five years with their respondents. The study was conducted in the urban community of Rajshahi city from January, 2018 to December, 2018. The dependent variables were nutritional status of preschool children. The independent variables were socio-demographic characteristics and maternal employment. Respondents were selected by a purposive sampling method and data were collected by semi-structured questionnaire by face to face interview. Nutritional status was determined by anthropometric measurements.

Results: The mean ages of the employed and unemployed mothers were 30.79±2.99 and 30.58±2.89 years respectively. Most of the employed mothers (91.0%) practiced exclusive breast-feeding for 6 months. Among the unemployed mothers, 64.0% practiced, which was a high statistical difference (p <0.001).There was highly significant statistical difference among mothers of two groups regarding starting complementary feeding as p=0.004. There was no significant statistical difference regarding children’s mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) classification. Weight for age (WAZ) - score, height for age (HAZ)-score and weight for height (WHZ)-score of employed and unemployed mother’s children showed a significant difference (p<0.05).

Conclusion: Maternal employed status plays an essential role in determining child health care practice, which may influence a child’s health and development in later life.

Biography

Md Motiur Rahman has completed his Masters of Public Health (MPH) from the National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM) under the Faculty of Preventive & Social Medicine of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) with a CGPA 3.74 on a scale of 4.00. Currently, He is working as a Medical Officer & Researcher in the department of natural medicine at the Sheikh Sayera Khatun Medical College Hospital, Gopalganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has over 10 Publications in the international Journal. Now he is trying to enrolling as a Ph.D. student with a scholarship in abroad.

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Md Motiur Rahman

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