Table 4. Prevalence of anaemia and malnutrition (i.e., underweight, stunting and wasting) among indigenous longhouse children.
| Intestinal Parasitic Infections (IPIs) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Mean (SD) | All children | Any IPIs | Mono-parasitism | Poly-parasitism | |||||||
| N = 144 | N = 82 | N = 58 | N = 10 | |||||||||
| n | % | n | % | p value | n | % | p value | n | % | p value | ||
| Nutritional Indicators# | ||||||||||||
| Mean HAZ | -1.53 (1.71) | 51 | 35.4 | 25 | 49.0 | 0.382 | 18 | 35.3 | 0.057 | 3 | 5.9 | 0.864 |
| Mean BAZ | 0.21 (2.20) | 8 | 5.6 | 4 | 50.0 | 0.805 | 4 | 50.0 | 0.490 | 0 | 0 | 0.975 |
| Mean WAZ | -0.74 (1.95) | 32 | 22.2 | 14 | 43.8 | 0.982 | 13 | 40.6 | 0.510 | 3 | 9.4 | 0.676 |
| Mean Hb | 11.80 (1.85) | 53 | 36.8 | 40 | 75.5 | <0.001* | 30 | 56.6 | 0.003* | 4 | 7.5 | 0.515 |
N: Total number examined; n: Number of underweight, stunting and wasting
WAZ: weight-for-age (underweight), HAZ height-for-age (stunting), BAZ: weight-for-height (wasting)
# Classified according to the criteria proposed by National Centre for Health Statistics reference (NCHS)
*Significant difference (p< 0.05); SD: Standard deviation for HAZ, BAZ, WAZ