Assessment of Prevalence of Malnutrition and Its Associated Factors among AIDS Patients from Asella, Oromia, Ethiopia.

Publisher: Hindawi Pub. Co Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101600173 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2314-6141 (Electronic) NLM ISO Abbreviation: Biomed Res Int Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: New York, NY : Hindawi Pub. Co.

Nutrition Assessment* ; Nutritional Status*; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*complications ; Malnutrition/*complications; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/drug therapy ; Adolescent ; Adult ; Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Data Collection ; Ethiopia/epidemiology ; Female ; Humans ; Immune System ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Multivariate Analysis ; Opportunistic Infections/complications ; Prevalence ; Risk Factors ; Young Adult

Sub-Saharan Africa remains to be the most heavily affected region by malnutrition, accounting for 23.8% share of the global burden. Undernutrition weakens the immune system, increases the susceptibility to infections, and may worsen the impact on various kinds of diseases. Our aim was to assess undernutrition and its associated factors among AIDS-infected adult patients from Asella, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. An institutional-based cross-sectional study design was employed from June to July 2018. A total number of 519 patients were selected for the proposed work. Data was entered into EpiData, checked, coded, and analyzed using SPSS version 21 software. Descriptive statistics were used to assess the prevalence of undernutrition among patients. Bivariate and multivariate regressions were used to determine the relationship between undernutrition and its associated factors among the study participants. The results of our study showed that the overall prevalence of undernutrition was 18.3%; out of which 12.7% were mildly and 5.6% were moderately to severely undernourished, respectively. Monthly income (AOR: 3.589, 95% CI (1.469-8.768)), whole grain feeding (AOR: 2.979, 95% CI (1.252-7.088)), opportunistic infections in the last six months (AOR: 3.683, 95% CI (3.075-4.411)), clinical stage (AOR: 2.998, 95% CI (1.269-7.083)), and insufficient quality of food (AOR: 3.149, 95% CI (1.339-7.406)) were found to be significantly associated with undernutrition in this study. Therefore, HIV treatment facility should be supported with nutritional assessment, supplementation, counseling, care, and support to patients that may possibly alleviate this predicament.
Competing Interests: The authors do not have any conflict of interest.
(Copyright © 2020 Teferi Teklu et al.)

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Date Created: 20201230 Date Completed: 20210608 Latest Revision: 20210608

20231215

PMC7738780

10.1155/2020/7360190

33376735