Background: Nutritional assessment in children is very important to prevent nutritional disorders and to decrease the morbidity and mortality. The present study was undertaken to assess the prevalence and determinants of malnutrition among children aged 0-5 years in a tribal community of Coimbatore district. Anaikatty and Palamalai tribal areas of Perianaikenpalayam block (population=347062) was selected for our study.Methods: A total of 206 children aged 0-5 years were included in the study after implementing the exclusion criteria.Results: Overall prevalence of malnutrition found to be 51%. These 51% (105) malnourished children consisted of 41.3% underweight, of which 11.2% were severely underweight. Prevalence of stunting was 32.5%, of which 6.3% were severely stunted. About 21.8% children were wasted and 6.8% were severely wasted among them. Socio-demographic factors like total number of family members exceeding four, mother’s educational status, father’s educational status, mother’s occupational status, socio-economic status, alcohol usage by any family member, and mother’s nutritional status were found to be significantly associated with malnutrition on univariate analysis.Conclusions: The problems of low standard of living, hunger, starvation, malnutrition, agricultural illiteracy, poor antenatal care, disease, poor sanitary and housing facilities, etc. has to be improved totally by implementation of policy that already exists.
Background: Working women are constantly facing the problems of role conflict or dual role. Due to role conflict, there are reports of psychological distress, mental tension, anxiety, etc, which affect the psychological well being of working women. Due to outside work, they have psychological problems such as anxiety, stress, burn out, fatigue, etc. This way, the mental health status of working women is neglected and hence, the present study aims to assess the psychological wellbeing of women in an industrial setup. Methods: A cross sectional study was done among women workers of 18 years and above. A standardized questionnaire was used to collect data. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 24. A total of 136 participants completed the study. Results: Present study showed that majority of the workers (67%) had low level of psychological well-being. Conclusion: Women workers have low level of psychological well-being and further studies are needed to understand factors influencing it.
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