Prevalence of undernutrition and its associated factors among older adults using Mini Nutritional Assessment tool in Womberma district, West Gojjam Zone, Amhara Region, North West Ethiopia, 2020

Undernutrition is a frequent and serious problem in the world's older adults. Even though life expectancy is increasing, they are more vulnerable and at risk for nutritional problems. However, not much is known about the nutritional status of this group of the population, and they are often neg...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2023-02, Vol.18 (2), p.e0274557
Hauptverfasser: Tadesse, Amsalu Dereje, Anto, Tsige Gebre, Birhanu, Molla Yigzaw, Agedew, Eskeziaw, Yimer, Belete, Abejie, Ayenew Negesse
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Zusammenfassung:Undernutrition is a frequent and serious problem in the world's older adults. Even though life expectancy is increasing, they are more vulnerable and at risk for nutritional problems. However, not much is known about the nutritional status of this group of the population, and they are often neglected. This study was aimed at assessing undernutrition and associated factors among older adults in Womberma District, West Gojjam Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 2020. A community-based cross-sectional study design was used among randomly selected 594 older adults aged above 60 years with a multistage simple random sampling method and proportional sample size allocation was used to address study subjects at the village level. The collected data was entered into Epi-Data version 4.2 and analyzed by using SPSS version 25. All variables with a p-value
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0274557