Effects of age misstatement on the utility of age-dependent anthropometric indicators of nutritional status in rural Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11023712 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Bairagi, Barry Edmonston, A D Khan, Asaf Khan |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 280-282 |
| Publication date | 1987-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.77.3.280 |
| PMID | 3812830 |
| OpenAlex | W2084618359 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 8 |
We report the effects of age error on use of weight-for-age and height-for-age for assessing and screening malnutrition, and for identifying factors of malnutrition in 679 children aged 22-59 months in Companiganj, in rural Bangladesh. Overreporting and random error in age and correlation of age error with each of the anthropometric indices are observed. As a result, the proportion of children having less than or equal to 60 per cent of median weight-for-age is overestimated by five percentage points and the proportion having less than 80 per cent of median height-for-age is overestimated by six points. Loss in sensitivity (proportion of malnourished children correctly identified) for the above cutoff points is 20 per cent for weight-for-age and 28 per cent for height-for-age, compared to the situation in the absence of age error. Although mother's education is not a significant determinant of weight-for-age and height-for-age, age error makes mother's education appear artifactually significant in the analysis of variance
Age groups · Analysis of variance · Anthropometry · Malnutrition · Weight for Age · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Pediatrics
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 2019 (33) |
| Highly cited | No |