Title | Applying Rank Sum Ratio (RSR) to the Evaluation of Feeding Practices Behaviors, and Its Associations with Infant Health Risk in Rural Lhasa, Tibet |
Authors | Wang, Zhenjie Dang, Shaonong Xing, Yuan Li, Qiang Yan, Hong |
Affiliation | Peking Univ, Inst Populat Res, WHO Collaborating Ctr Reprod Hlth & Populat Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China. Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Med, Dept Epidemiol & Hlth Stat, Xian 710061, Peoples R China. Xian Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Xian 710061, Peoples R China. |
Keywords | rank sum ratio feeding practices index infant health Tibet CHILD NUTRITIONAL-STATUS HIGH-ALTITUDES INDEX URBAN GROWTH |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Publisher | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH |
Citation | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH.2015,12,(12),15173-15181. |
Abstract | To evaluate the status of feeding practices and analyze the association between feeding practice and health status among Tibetan infants, a cross-sectional survey of 386 women with children aged under 24 months was conducted in rural areas surrounding Lhasa, Tibet. All participants were selected using simple random sampling and were interviewed face-to-face by trained interviewers. Mothers were interviewed to collect information on their feeding practices. A feeding practices index was created using the rank sum ratio method. Most of the infants had been or were being breastfed at the time of the interview. The feeding practices index was significantly and inversely associated with the prevalence of acute upper respiratory infection, and the odds ratio for the qualified feeding practices index vs. the non-qualified feeding practices index was 0.43 (95% confidence interval: 0.20-0.94). There were no measurable associations observed between acute upper respiratory infection, diarrhea, and the feeding practices index after controlling for selected factors. The method of rank sum ratio provides a flexible way to evaluate feeding practices and is easy to understand. Furthermore, appropriate infant feeding practices might play a protective role in Tibetan infants' health. |
URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/436008 |
ISSN | 1660-4601 |
DOI | 10.3390/ijerph121214976 |
Indexed | SCI(E) PubMed |
Appears in Collections: | 人口研究所 |