30Nov 2016

SOCIO ECONOMIC AND DIETARY ASSESSMENT OF ANAEMIC ADOLESCENT GIRLS (13-18YRS) IN RURAL COIMBATORE.

  • Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore – 641043.
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The Nutritional status of adolescent girls can directly be related to the nutritional status of the community because today’s adolescents are future mothers. The nutritional requirement increases during adolescent period. Nutritional anaemia is considered as a major public health problem in India. Most of the health care services in India are on mother and child group only. Nutritional status of adolescent girls plays a vital role in attaining healthy reproductive outcome. Prevalence of malnutrition among adolescent girls is high in India particularly among rural population. Inculcating of healthy eating habits is very important as diet plays a very important role in growth and development of adolescents. A cross sectional community based study was conducted to assess the nutritional status of 920 adolescent girls in the age group of 13-18 years studying in Government Higher Secondary Schools hailing from different rural areas of Karamadai block of Coimbatore District. Relevant data on socioeconomic information, dietary intakes of the girls were assessed by 24 hour dietary recall method. Hemoglobin estimation was done by Cyanmethaemoglobin method. Data was analyzed by mean, standard deviation and ANOVA. Prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls was reported to be 59.5 per cent at moderate level and 39.5percent of them were reported with mild level of anaemia respectively.


[Sujatha K. And Kowsalya S. (2016); SOCIO ECONOMIC AND DIETARY ASSESSMENT OF ANAEMIC ADOLESCENT GIRLS (13-18YRS) IN RURAL COIMBATORE. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 4 (Nov). 1628-1633] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/2254      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/2254