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Recovery From Malnutrition Among Refugee Children Following Participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program in Massachusetts, 1998-2010.
J Public Health Manag Pract
February 2021
Division of Global Populations and Infectious Disease Prevention (Mss Smock, Nguyen and Cochran, and Dr Geltman) and Office of Integrated Surveillance and Informatics Services (Ms Martelon), Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, and Division of Nutrition (Dr Metallinos-Katsaras), Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Nutrition, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Metallinos-Katsaras); and Franciscan Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Geltman).
Objectives: (1) To examine patterns of catch-up growth and anemia correction in refugee children younger than 5 years after participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and (2) to identify factors associated with recovery from growth abnormalities.
Design: Records on 1731 refugee children younger than 5 years who arrived in Massachusetts between 1998-2010 were matched to WIC program records and then restricted to 779 children who had at least 2 WIC visits. Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox proportional hazards models were used to examine how sex affected time to recovery from malnutrition and anemia.
Refugee Children's Participation in the Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Nutrition (WIC) Program in Massachusetts, 1998-2010.
J Public Health Manag Pract
April 2020
Division of Global Populations and Infectious Disease Prevention (Mss Smock, Nguyen, and Cochran, and Dr and Geltman) and Division of Nutrition (Dr Metallinos-Katsaras), Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston; and Department of Nutrition, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Metallinos-Katsaras); Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Global Health Equity, Boston Children's Hospital Division of General Pediatrics, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Magge); and Ambulatory Care Services, Franciscan Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Geltman).
Objectives: To (1) describe prevalence of growth abnormalities and anemia in refugee children; (2) describe the proportion of age-eligible refugee children enrolled in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); and (3) identify risk factors for lack of enrollment in WIC.
Design: Data were collected from 1731 health screenings for refugee children younger than 5 years in Massachusetts in 1998-2010 and matched to WIC program records. Risk factors for lack of WIC enrollment were analyzed in SAS using multivariate logistic regression.