Use of modified composite index of anthropometric failure and MUAC-for-age to assess prevalence of malnutrition among school-age children and adolescents involved in the school feeding program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 1 mCIAF categories adapted for children and adolescents of age group 5–19 years

Categ-ories	Description	Stunting	Underweight	Thinness	Overweight
A	Without anthropometric failure	No	No	No	No
B	Thinness only	No	No	Yes	No
C*	Thinness and Underweight	No	Yes	Yes	No
D	Stunting, Thinness, and Underweight	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
E*	Stunting and Underweight	Yes	Yes	No	No
F	Stunting only	Yes	No	No	No
G	Overweight	No	No	No	Yes
H	Stunting and excess weight (overweight and obese)	Yes	No	No	Yes
Y*	Underweight only	No	Yes	No	No

Adatpted from others with modification for school-age children and adolescents [9, 12]
*Only for schoolchildren of age group 5–9 years [10]

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