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Abstract
Malnutrition can affect any age group in a community, but infants and young children are the most vulnerable due to their high nutritional requirements for growth and development. Malnutrition used to under nutrition but also refer to over nutrition, malnutrition can be caused by many factors such as: inappropriate food intake, infections, psychosocial deprivation, insanitary environment, lack of hygiene, social inequality Children suffering from stunting may never grow to their full height and their brains may never develop to their full cognitive potential. Globally, approximately 155 million children under five suffer from stunting. These children begin their lives at a marked disadvantage: they face learning difficulties in school, earn less as adults, and face barriers to participation in their communities. Wasting in children is the life-threatening result of hunger and/or disease. Children suffering from wasting have weakened immunity. This study aimed to assess nutritional status of children living at selected orphanage institution.
• cross-sectional descriptive research design was utilized in the current study. The study sample included (109) children living in five orphanage. The required data were collected through the utilization of two tool, one two, and another was included four parts. The tool one developed by the researcher, and then reviewed by a panel of five experts in the field of community health nursing specialty listed as the following tool(1):Demographic data it was developed by the researcher after revising extensive literature review. It was collected at the first intervie. Tool (2): Assessment sheet it was developed by (Johston) was included four parts. Part1: Clinical assessment. Part 2: Anthropometric Measurement. Part 3: Dietary assessment. Part 4: Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors. As regard to the finding of the current study revealed that, Near to half of the children’s were in primary school, Physical signs suggesting nutritional deficiencies were detected in about quarter of the sample, and it showed that more than half were stunted, less than one fifth of them overweight and 9.7% of children aged between 3-7 years had small head circumferences The result of the current study revealed Orphan children affected with over nutrition and under nutrition due to caregivers don’t have nutrition education program for quantity, quality and size of food portions are appropriate to the ages of children Recommendations: The coexistence of under- and over nutrition among institutionalized children calls for implementation of comprehensive intervention strategies committed to reducing under nutrition while simultaneously preventing over nutrition through improving diet quality and physical activity.