Determinants Of Child Health Among Internally Displaced Person In Taraba State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

In Nigeria, not many considerations have been taken into the health of vulnerable children at the

Internally Displaced Persons Camp. Hence, the need for more research that will help in

designing necessary intervention programme. This study examines the determinants of child

health among internally displaced persons in Taraba State, using data from a well-structured

questimmaire. Binary logistic regression model was ernployed in multivariate analysis. Findings

revealed that women between the ages 21- 30 are 6% less likely to have children with good

nutritional status, compared to women with ages less or equal to 20. (CI= 0.96, p=0.055).

Women in age group 31-40 and 41- 50 are 2.2 time and 2.4 time more likely to have good

nutrition, compared to women in age group less than 20 respectively.

Furthermore, women from monogamous family are 1.46 times more likely to have children with

good nutritional status compared to women in polygamous family (CI= 1.46, p=0.028).

The study also revealed that women with 5-9 and IO+ children are less likely to have children to

good nutritional status, compared to those with children less than 5 (3% and 55%) respectively.

The study concludes that empowerment of women at the IDP camp, through education will greatly increase the nutritional status of the children.