Fig 1.
Sampling scheme of severe acutely malnourished children included in the study.
Simple random sampling was used to select health centers. In the selected health centers, systematic random sampling was used to select eligible SAM children. SAM refers to Severe Acute Malnutrition and OTP refers to Outpatient Therapeutic Care Program.
Table 1.
Socio- demographic and admission characteristics of children with SAM enrolled to OTP in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia; from January, 2013 to December, 2016.
Table 2.
Medical co-morbidity characteristics of children with SAM on admission under OTP in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia; from January, 2013 to December, 2016.
Table 3.
Treatments given information to children with SAM enrolled to OTP in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia; from January, 2013 to December, 2016.
Table 4.
Comparison of the study result with the standard of therapeutic food to be consumed.
Table 5.
The comparison of the study results with international Sphere Standards, 2013–2016, Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia.
Fig 2.
Overall Kaplan Meier recovery estimate of children treated under OTP in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia; January 2013 to December 2016.
Fig 3.
Comparative Kaplan Meir survival function for SAM Children with edema and without edema, from 2013 to 2016 in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia (Log Rank chi-square = 35.760, p-value < 0.001).
Table 6.
Bivariate Cox-regression for prediction of time to recovery from SAM under OTP in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia; from January, 2013 to December, 2016.
Table 7.
Multivariate Cox-regression for prediction of time to recovery from SAM under OTP in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia; from January, 2013 to December, 2016.