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      Journal: BMC Research Notes
      Publisher: BioMed Central
      Keywords: stunting, factors, wukro, tigray region, ethiopia

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          Abstract

          Objective

          The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence of stunting and associated factors among under-five children of Wukro town, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2017–2018.

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          Totally 394 under-five children were participated in this study with a response rate of 98.5%. A total of 222 (56.3%) of respondents were females and 106 (26.95%) were in the age group of 12–23 month. One hundred ninety-eight (50.3%) of the participants were between 2 and 3 in birth order and 194 (49.2%) had 4 to 5 house hold size. The overall prevalence of stunting was 194 (49.2%). Being female and presence of washing facilities nearby latrine were significantly associated with stunting. Under-five female children were 35.4% lower odds of stunting compared to male children (p = .041, OR = .644, and 95% CI (.422, .983)).

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                Contributors
                Tesfay Tsegay Gebru: tesfaytsegay4@gmail.com
                Yohannes Ashebir Tesfamichael: yohannesashebir4@gmail.com
                Muzayene Tilahun Bitow: muzayene@gmail.com
                Natnael Etsay Assefa: natty416@gmail.com
                Gdiom Gebreheat Abady: gdiom7@gmail.com
                Meresa Berwo Mengesha: meresaberu@gmail.com
                Haftom Tesfay Gebremedhin: haftomtesfay30@gmail.com
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): BMC Res Notes
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): BMC Res Notes
                Title: BMC Research Notes
                Publisher: BioMed Central (London )
                ISSN (Electronic): 1756-0500
                Publication date (Electronic): 14 August 2019
                Publication date PMC-release: 14 August 2019
                Publication date Collection: 2019
                Volume: 12
                Electronic Location Identifier: 504
                Affiliations
                [1 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1783 9494, GRID grid.472243.4, Department of Nursing, , Adigrat University, ; Adigrat, Ethiopia
                [2 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1783 9494, GRID grid.472243.4, Department of Biomedical, , Adigrat University, ; Adigrat, Ethiopia
                [3 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1783 9494, GRID grid.472243.4, Department of Midwifery, , Adigrat University, ; Adigrat, Ethiopia
                [4 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1783 9494, GRID grid.472243.4, Department of Psychiatry, , Adigrat University, ; Adigrat, Ethiopia
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                Publisher ID: 4535
                DOI: 10.1186/s13104-019-4535-2
                PMC ID: 6693130
                PubMed ID: 30602384
                SO-VID: 513775f4-360c-43d8-8e2d-c010086af86a
                Copyright © © The Author(s) 2019
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                Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

                History
                Date received : 22 May 2019
                Date accepted : 2 August 2019
                Funding
                Funded by: Adigrat University
                Award ID: AGU/CMHS/034/09
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Medicine
                Keywords: stunting,factors,wukro,tigray region,ethiopia
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                Keywords: stunting, factors, wukro, tigray region, ethiopia

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