Abstract
Background: Pneumonia remains one of the main causes of childhood mortality despite the availability of
simple, safe, effective and inexpensive interventions to curb its mortality. This could result from sub-optimal
care seeking practices and child rearing, supplemented by lack of access to healthcare.We conducted a
studyto identify the association of malnutrition and initiation of breastfeeding variables with severe pneumonia and pneumonia/no pneumonia
Objective: To determine association of malnutrition and colostrums intake among children aged 2-24
months admitted in tertiary care hospital for severe pneumonia.
Methods: A total of 288 patients with severe pneumonia were included in this case-control study. Patients
were divided into 2 groups with 144 patients in each group selected through non-probability consecutive
sampling. Sample size was calculated using WHO sample size calculator keeping power of test at 80%, P1=
1% and P2=7.8%. Data was analyzed through SPSS version 19 and p-value < 0.05 considered as significant.
Association between study variables and severe pneumonia was computed using Chi Square Test.
Results: Mean age for group A (67 males and 77 females) was 13.00±6.40 months and group B (78 males, 66
females) 12.83±6.90 months. Malnutrition was seen in 41% of group A and 17.4% of group B patients. Colostrum intake (Initiation of breast feeding with 72 hours) was reported in 78.5% of group A and 79.2% of group
B. There was a significant association of malnutrition with severe pneumonia (p=0.000) whereas, no significant relation was found with colostrum intake (p=0.885).
Conclusion: Malnutrition was significantly associated with severe pneumonia. Colostrum was the most prevalent factor in both groups but the difference was insignificant.
Faiza Siddiqui, Mohammad Iqbal, Kausar Aamir, Zareen Naz. (2018) Association Between Malnutrition & Colostrum For Severe Pneumonia, The Pakistan Journal of Medicine and Dentistry, Volume-7, Issue-1.
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