TY - JOUR
T1 - The association between household socioeconomic status, breastfeeding, and infants’ anthropometric indices
AU - Oldewage-Theron, Wilna
AU - Abdollahi, Morteza
AU - Salehi, Forouzan
AU - Oldewage-Theron, Wilna
AU - Jamshidi-Naeini, Yasaman
AU - Ajami, Marjan
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 International Journal of Preventive Medicine.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Background: The growth, learning, and contribution to active life in the communities are
better in well‑nourished children, and various factors influence infants’ feeding. In this study,
we assessed whether household socioeconomic status (SES) affects infants’ length‑for‑age,
weight‑for‑age (indicators of health and nutritional status) and breastfeeding (BF) (a necessity for
optimal growth and health) status. Methods: In this cross‑sectional study, 150 households with
infants of 1–1.5 years old were interviewed on these variables: family size, dwelling ownership,
duration of BF, exclusive BF (EBF) for 6 months, parents’ age, parents’ ethnicity, birth order,
delivery type, and parents’ education. Weight and length at 4 and 12 months were obtained from
centers’ records. To determine SES, we assessed total years of parents’ education and household
asset ownership by an index of nine owned assets. Results: The average of 4‑month length in the
low SES group was significantly lower than the
AB - Background: The growth, learning, and contribution to active life in the communities are
better in well‑nourished children, and various factors influence infants’ feeding. In this study,
we assessed whether household socioeconomic status (SES) affects infants’ length‑for‑age,
weight‑for‑age (indicators of health and nutritional status) and breastfeeding (BF) (a necessity for
optimal growth and health) status. Methods: In this cross‑sectional study, 150 households with
infants of 1–1.5 years old were interviewed on these variables: family size, dwelling ownership,
duration of BF, exclusive BF (EBF) for 6 months, parents’ age, parents’ ethnicity, birth order,
delivery type, and parents’ education. Weight and length at 4 and 12 months were obtained from
centers’ records. To determine SES, we assessed total years of parents’ education and household
asset ownership by an index of nine owned assets. Results: The average of 4‑month length in the
low SES group was significantly lower than the
KW - Body weights and measures
KW - breastfeeding
KW - social class
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U2 - 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_52_17
DO - 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_52_17
M3 - Article
SN - 2008-8213
VL - 9
SP - 5 pages
JO - International Journal of Preventive Medicine
JF - International Journal of Preventive Medicine
IS - 1
M1 - 89
ER -