RT Journal Article
T1 Nutritional evaluation of undocumented children: a neglected health issue affecting the most fragile people
A1 Comandini, Ornella
A1 Cabras, Stefano
A1 Marini, Elisabetta
AB The precise knowledge of age is necessary for assessing a child’s nutritional status. We show the magnitude and the effects of age error in real and hypothetical situations, and discuss possible compensative strategies. Using data collected in different years, we found that 79.8% of 1056 Ugandan children had some age knowledge, but there was a mean shift of 7.5 (±8.8) months between ages obtained from different sources. Using a free software for calculating the effect of bias and random error, we showed the variation in malnutrition prevalence in hypothetical cases.
PB Oxford University Press
SN 1101-1262
YR 2017
FD 2017-02-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/33020
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/33020
LA eng
NO The research was partially supported by RYC-2012-11455; MINECO-Spain project (MTM2016-77501-P) and RAS-Italy project (CRP-59903).
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RD 1 jun. 2024