Prevalence of double burden on malnutrition at household level in four Latin America countries

Temponi, Hanrieti Rotelli; Velasquez-Melendez, Gustavo

doi:10.1590/1806-93042020000100003

Hanrieti Rotelli Temponi

Escola de Enfermagem. Departamento de Enfermagem Materno Infantil e Saúde Pública. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. School of Nursing. Department of Maternal and Child Nursing and Public Health. Federal University of Minas Gerais. Avenida Alfredo Balena, 190. Santa Efigênia. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. CEP: 30.130-100. E-mail: hanrietirari@gmail.com

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-0082

Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez

Escola de Enfermagem. Departamento de Enfermagem Materno Infantil e Saúde Pública. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. School of Nursing. Department of Maternal and Child Nursing and Public Health. Federal University of Minas Gerais. Avenida Alfredo Balena, 190. Santa Efigênia. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. CEP: 30.130-100. E-mail: hanrietirari@gmail.com

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8349-5042

Authors’ contribution

Temponi HR performed the data acquisition and analysis, participated in the writing, interpretation of the results and the review of the article; Velasquez-Melendez G defined the study design, participated in the writing, the interpretation of results and the review of this article. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

	Brazil	Bolivia	Colombia	Peru
Sample size of women 15 to 49 years of age and their children up to 60 months of age Mother-child binomial losses	4,882	8,091	16,939	9,187
By exclusion criteria - Stage 1	1,873	2,697	4,990	1,954
Lack of information - Stage 2	345	31	482	221
Final sample	2,664	5,363	11,467	7,012

Variables	Brazil			Bolivia			Colombia			Peru
Variables	n	%	CI95%	n	%	CI95%	n	%	CI95%	n	%	CI95%
Population sample^* * Complex sample plan. Corresponds to the total number of mother-child binomials considered for analysis in the survey, but without the post-stratification of weights;	2,664			5,363			11,467			7,012
Child's gender
Male	1,360	52.0	48.9 - 55.2	2,710	50.6	48.9 - 52.3	5,900	51.7	50.4 - 52.9	3,533	50.8	49.3 - 52.2
Female	1,304	48.0	44.8 - 51.1	2,653	49.4	47.8 - 51.1	5,567	48.3	47.1 - 49.6	3,479	49.2	47.8 - 50.7
Child's age (months)
≥ 24	1,788	63.6	60.4 -66.8	3,664	68.6	67.0 - 70.1	7,724	67.2	66.1 - 68.3	4,738	66.7	65.2 - 68.1
< 24	876	36.4	32.2 -39.6	1,699	31.4	29.9 - 33.0	3,743	32.8	31.7 - 33.9	2,274	33.3	31.9 - 34.8
Mother's age (years)
≥ 25	1,719	61.0	57.4 - 64.4	3,767	71.9	70.5 - 73.4	7,339	65.4	64.2 - 66.6	5,091	73.3	71.7 - 74.8
< 25	945	39.0	35.6 - 42.6	1,596	28.1	26.6 - 29.5	4,128	34.6	33.4 - 35.8	1,921	26.7	25.2 - 28.3
Maternal BMI^ BMI= Body Mass Index;
< 25 kg/m²	1,510	56.7	53.5 - 59.9	2,560	47.3	45.4 - 49.2	6,089	54.2	53.0 - 55.4	2,898	40.2	38.6 - 41.7
≥ 25 kg/m²	1,154	43.3	40.1 - 46.5	2,803	52.7	50.8 - 54.6	5,378	45.8	44.6 - 47.0	4,114	59.8	58.3 - 61.4
Child' height by age
No	2,515	94.4	92.5 - 95.8	4,299	79.6	77.8 - 81.3	10,367	91.9	91.2 - 92.5	6,007	87.5	86.4 - 88.6
Yes	149	5.6	4.2 - 7.5	1,064	20.4	18.7 - 22.2	1,100	8.1	7.5 - 8.8	1,005	12.5	11.4 - 13.6
Double burden^* ***** Overweight mother and short stature in children.
No	2,595	97.8	96.8 - 98.5	4,880	90.7	89.6 - 91.7	11,037	96.8	96.4 - 97.2	6,502	93.3	92.5 - 94.0
Yes	69	2.2	1.47 - 3.2	483	9.3	8.3 - 10.4	430	3.2	2.8 - 3.6	510	6.7	6.0 - 7.5

[1] Authors’ contribution

Temponi HR performed the data acquisition and analysis, participated in the writing, interpretation of the results and the review of the article; Velasquez-Melendez G defined the study design, participated in the writing, the interpretation of results and the review of this article. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.