4 / 5
allied
academies
Page 21
Notes:
Journal of Nutrition and Human Health | Volume 3
J Nutr Hum Health, Volume 3
November 21-22, 2019 | Singapore
Clinical Nutrition and Fitness
17
th
International Conference on
Complementary feeding practices associated with wasting of children 6 - 23 months
old in Dilala, Lualaba province, DRC, 2017
Ngoy Bulaya Emmanuel
University of Lubumbashi, DRC
Background:
Malnutrition is in high prevalence in some
developing countries, like Democratic Republic of the
Congo mostly among children from 6 to 23 months.
Complementary Feeding is among the main causes of
malnutrition worldwide.
Objectives:
The present study aimed to assess the
complementary feeding practices associated with acute
malnutrition in DRC.
Design (Methodology):
A community-based cross-sectional
study was conducted from October23th to November25th
2017 in DILALA Health Zone, using a three-stage stratified
cluster-sampling technique. In 10 Health Areas, 698 children
6-23months old were assessed on nutritional status and their
mothers interviewed on complementary feeding practices.
Household questionnaire pretested and revised, standardized
anthropometry equipment and World Health Organization
recommendations were used with trained data collectors.
ENA for SMART and Logistic regression on SPSS 23 were used
to data analysis.
Results:
Wasting was associated with lack of knowledge
on minimum meal frequency (a adjusted odds ratio=2.4, CI
1.14-5.11), minimum dietary diversity (an adjusted odds
ratio=0.23, CI 0.055-0.981) and protected source of drinking
water (an adjusted odds ratio=0.50, CI 0.26-0.93).
Conclusion:
Wasting was more increased among children
whose mothers were without knowledge on minimum meal
frequency of complementary feeding, but more prevented in
children havingmetminimumdietary diversity and in children
from household with protected source of drinking water.
Speaker Biography
Ngoy Bulaya Emmanuel birth born in Tanganyika Province; DRC is
Nutritionist in Public Health (2005). He obtained his MPH in Epidemiology,
Preventive Medicine and Disease Control at the School of Public Health,
Lubumbashi University (2007). He obtained his MPHN in Nutritional
Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, Kinshasa University (2017). He
was elected and became the provincial president of the DRC nutritionists
association intheentireKatangaProvincefrom(2009-2012). InSeptember
2009, the University of Lubumbashi appointed him at the School of Public
Health as Assistant Professor in the Nutrition Unit while the DRC Health
Ministry designated him like Provincial Coordinator of National Nutrition
Program (2009 – 2015). He worked at the School of Agronomic Studies as
Secretary of the Manager Committee (2003 - 2006). He was elected and
became the Provincial President of the DRC Nutritionists Association in the
entire Katanga Province from (2009 - 2012). He has over three publications
in various conferences.
e:
ngoybulaya@yahoo.fr