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Table 3 Relationship between PYMS and weight for height Z-score by Pearson Chi Square in patients less than 6 years old (N = 53)

From: Evaluation of the risk of malnutrition in hospitalized children by PYMS, STAMP, and STRONGkids tools and comparison with their anthropometric indices: a cross-sectional study

  

Weight for height value

Weight for height value

Weight for height value

  
  

Severe malnutrition

Moderate malnutrition

Not malnourished

Total

P-value

PYMS

Low-risk

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

25 (64.1%)

25 (47.2%)

 
 

Moderate risk

0 (0.0%)

2 (20.0%)

5 (12.8%)

7 (13.2%)

 < 0.001

 

High-risk

4 (100.0%)

8 (80.0%)

9 (23.1%)

21 (39.6%)

 

Total

 

4 (100.0%)

10 (100.0%)

39 (100.0%)

53 (100.0%)

 

STRONG

Low-risk

0 (0.0%)

5 (27.8%)

31 (40.2%)

36 (35.2%)

 

kids

Moderate risk

3 (42.8%)

3 (16.6%)

7 (9.0%)

13 (12.7%)

0.017

 

High-risk

1 (25.0%)

2 (20.0%)

1 (2.5%)

4 (7.5%)

 

Total

 

4 (100.0%)

10 (100.0%)

39 (100.0%)

53 (100.0%)

 
  1. Table 3 depicts the number of patients in crosstabs in subgroups of weight for height Z score and PYMS. After cross tabulation, P-value for Chi Square and Fisher’s Exact Test analysis are given