High Prevalence of Undernutrition among Children in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Table 2

Selected health-related and sociodemographic characteristics of the children aged 6–59 months, Gondar Town, northwest Ethiopia .

Variables	Frequency	Percentage
Sex of the child
Male	378	53.5
Female	329	46.5
Age of the child (in months)
6–11	74	10.5
12–23	181	25.6
24–35	174	24.6
36–47	155	21.9
48–59	123	17.4
Birth interval
1st child	289	40.9
1 year	28	4.0
2 years	79	11.2
3 years	84	11.9
4 years and above	227	32.1
Weight changes in the last two weeks
Yes	64	9.1
No	643	90.9
Illness in the last two weeks
Yes	152	21.5
No	555	78.5
Morbidity symptoms
Diarrhea	83	54.6
Cough	44	28.9
Fever	25	16.5
Children had eating problem
Yes	146	20.7
No	561	79.3
Types of eating problems
Loss of appetite	140	89.2
Swallowing problem	2	1.3
Vomiting	15	9.5
Children had Bitot’s spot
Yes	4	0.6
No	703	99.4
Vitamin A supplementation
Yes	682	96.5
No	25	3.5

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