Time to Recovery from Severe Acute Malnutrition for Children in Debre Berhan, Ethiopia

A 2026 study by Nadew Wondmagegnehu on children aged 6–59 months with severe acute malnutrition in Debre Berhan city, Ethiopia. The dataset, shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license, is 346.9 KB and includes files in DTA and DO formats. It focuses on recovery time and associated factors for this specific demographic.

Use Cases

• Modeling time-to-recovery for severe acute malnutrition based on patient demographic and clinical factors.
• Identifying risk factors associated with prolonged recovery times in pediatric malnutrition cases.
• Conducting survival analysis on nutritional intervention outcomes for children aged 6–59 months.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse and redistribution.
• Focuses on a specific, high-need demographic: children aged 6–59 months with severe acute malnutrition.
• Includes temporal data on recovery, which is a key outcome measure for clinical studies.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single city study in Ethiopia.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Nadew Wondmagegnehu

Collection Method

Likely collected via clinical study or health facility records, as inferred from the description.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-19 18:38:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Debre Berhan city, Ethiopia