Desktop Review: Association of Mother’s Education and Malnutrition of Children under the age of 5 Years

Abstract

The major cause of illness to the children found malnourishment and its impact found stunt, mortality and wasting.  Association of Mother’s education and undernourishment of the children discovered in the selected 21 articles and reports in academic journals. The malnourishment in the children of under 5 years found particularly in the low income households in different countries. There were different factors identified of malnutrition but association of mother’s education to the malnutrition of children under the age of 5 years was missing and correlation analysis was not carried out as an important factor of malnutrition. The analysis was carried out with a convergence approach of research design. The p value is to find out the association of among the variables;   ten articles were with ‘p’ value and the rest were not; these were 52.38 % and agreed one way or another with the association of mother’s education on the issue of malnutrition, likewise another 47. 61 percent were with ‘p’ calculation and average ‘p <value calculated in Excel program, the outcome was of p <0.042566 which was less than <0.05(standard norm of association) and showed a strong bond (correlation/ association) of malnutrition of under 5 years children with mother’s education. Mother’s education is found as a vital source to reduce the malnutrition among the children of Nepal and elsewhere, the targeted intervention program should be launched to educate the mothers of children on functional literacy on diet and with the nutritional value of local products.