PMID- 22655452
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120713
LR  - 20220408
IS  - 1394-035X (Print)
IS  - 1394-035X (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 3
DP  - 2011 Dec
TI  - Prevalence and causes of low birth weight in India.
PG  - 301-13
AB  - INTRODUCTION: The aims of the study are (i) to understand inter-zone and 
      interstate variation of low birth weight (LBW) and (ii) to determine the key 
      variables to reduce LBW in India. METHODS: Using the latest National Family 
      Health Survey (NFHS) data of 2005-06 which showed the percentage distribution of 
      LBW infants, ANOVA and post-hoc test were performed to determine the spatial 
      variation of birth weight. The covariates which influence LBW fell into three 
      categories: (i) social variables which included location, mother's education, 
      religion, access of mothers to newspapers, television and family structure; (ii) 
      economic variable namely, the wealth index, and (iii) biological variables which 
      consisted of sex of the children, birth order, and mother's body mass index 
      (BMI). Three models of Logistic regression were carried out to examine the 
      influence of the combinations of these direct and indirect factors. RESULTS: In 
      India, nearly 20% of new borns have LBW. Males have less frequency of LBW than 
      females. The North-east zone has the lowest prevalence of LBW while the north 
      zone has the highest. Mother's education, access to TV and nuclear family, and 
      intake of iron tablets are the most important socio-economic influences on the 
      determination of birth weight in India. CONCLUSION: It is essential to provide 
      proper diet and nutritional care of mothers during pregnancy. Increased education 
      of mothers through programmes in TV and newspapers articles have significant 
      roles to play in reducing LBW in India.
FAU - Bharati, P
AU  - Bharati P
AD  - Sociological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 BT Road, Kolkata 
      700108. bharati@isical.ac.in
FAU - Pal, M
AU  - Pal M
FAU - Bandyopadhyay, M
AU  - Bandyopadhyay M
FAU - Bhakta, A
AU  - Bhakta A
FAU - Chakraborty, S
AU  - Chakraborty S
FAU - Bharati, P
AU  - Bharati P
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Malaysia
TA  - Malays J Nutr
JT  - Malaysian journal of nutrition
JID - 101286655
SB  - IM
MH  - *Birth Weight
MH  - Communications Media
MH  - Educational Status
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Education
MH  - Health Surveys
MH  - Humans
MH  - India/epidemiology
MH  - *Infant, Low Birth Weight
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - Male
MH  - Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena/ethnology
MH  - Maternal Welfare
MH  - Mothers
MH  - Newspapers as Topic
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
EDAT- 2012/06/05 06:00
MHDA- 2012/07/14 06:00
CRDT- 2012/06/05 06:00
PHST- 2012/06/05 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/06/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/07/14 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Malays J Nutr. 2011 Dec;17(3):301-13.