Nutritional status of Palestinian preschoolers in the Gaza Strip: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Factors associated with nutritional resilience among preschoolers,¹ Gaza, 2007

	Resilience
Variable	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval
Age (per month)	0.95	0.92, 0.98
Normal birth weight	5.85	1.64, 20.94
"Mother helped feeding the child when he was younger than 2 years"	3.23	1.32, 7.69
Residential stability in past 2 years	1.98	1.04, 3.77

Source of data: Interviews with mothers of 350 children aged 3-6 in 10 kindergartens across Gaza Strip, Palestine, January 2007.
¹: Based on Binary logistic regression, with the moderate nutritional status as a referent group. Only variables with regression coefficients associated with a p-value ≤ 0.05 were included in the model.

ISSN: 1471-2458