A Study on Nutritional Status of Rural School going Children in Kavre District

Mansur, DI; Mk, Haque; Sharma, Kalpana; Dk, Mehta; Shakya, Rajani

doi:10.3126/kumj.v13i2.16788

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“…However different studies such as study conducted in 2014 in Kaski district of Nepal, further analysis of Demographic and Health survey 2008 in Ghana 2015 documented the lower prevalence of underweight 15.3% and 13.8% respectively among adolescents [24],[29]. In spite of this, most of the studies conducted in rural areas of different countries such as study conducted in 2015 in Kavre district of Nepal among rural school going adolescent girls of 9–16 years, cross-sectional study conducted by Bisai, Bose, Ghosh and De, 2011 among rural school children aged 11–18 years of West Bengal, India and data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) in seven African countries between 2006 and 2010, by Taru, Hesham, David and Jason in 2014 from randomly selected schools going adolescents of 11–17 years showed the prevalence of underweight among adolescents were high 31.98%, 28.3% and 31.9% respectively than the present study [22],[30],[31].The variation of underweight in different study might be due to the difference in study setting of different schools, different age group of adolescents included in the study and methodologies applied in the study.…”

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“…According to Global School Based Student Health Survey (GSHS) 2015, 10.9% (male 13.8%, female 8.1%) adolescent students were underweight, 6.7% (male 7.6%, female 5.8%) were overweight (heavy for their height) and 0.6% (male 0.8% and female 0.4%) of the school going adolescent were obese [21]. A cross-sectional study conducted among school going adolescent girls, 9–16 years studying in various schools in rural area of Kavre district, Nepal found that overall prevalence of underweight, stunting and thinness was 31.98%, 21.08% and 14.94% respectively [22]. In most developing countries, nutrition initiatives have been focusing on children and women, thus neglecting adolescents.…”

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Prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among school going adolescents of Dang district, Nepal

Bhattarai

Bhusal

2019

AIMS Public Health

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BackgroundMalnutrition is a quiet emergency and one of the most widespread causes of morbidity and mortality among children and adolescent throughout the world; however there are very limited indications about the cause of malnutrition among adolescents. This study aimed to find out the prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among school going adolescents of Dang district, Nepal.MethodsSchool based descriptive cross-sectional research design among 510 school adolescents studying in grade 9 and 10 between ages 14–17 years on April–October 2017 was conducted in Dang district Nepal. Among total 130 secondary schools, 10 schools were selected; one government and one private from each 5 electoral constituency using multistage probability random sampling.ResultsThe mean age and family size was 15.28 ± 0.77 and 5.25 ± 1.56 respectively. Among the total 25.7% of the adolescents are malnourished where 21.8% underweight, 3.1% overweight and 0.8% obese. After adjustment some of the variables such as religion (OR = 0.19; CI = 0.05–0.65, p = 0.008), family type (OR = 0.28; CI = 0.13–0.61, p = 0.001), school type (OR = 0.46; CI = 0.22–0.98, p = 0.044), earning status of family (OR = 4.52; CI = 1.44–14.16, p = 0.010), daily intake of green leafy vegetables (OR = 0.49; CI = 0.26–0.93, p = 0.031) and school sports (OR = 0.49; CI = 0.25–0.96, p = 0.040) were significantly associated with the underweight of adolescent. Similarly, variables such as gender (OR = 0.20; CI = 0.04–0.97, p = 0.046) and religion (OR = 9.75; CI = 2.24–42.39, p = 0.002) were significantly associated with the overweight/obesity of adolescent.ConclusionMalnutrition was significantly higher among adolescents living in joint family, family having no earning status. Male adolescents were found more likely to be overweight and obesity. Hence to tie up the good nutrition it is recommended that integrated nutritional intervention and health related services should also be focused on adolescents.

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Prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among school going adolescents of Dang district, Nepal

Bhattarai

Bhusal

2019

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“…This might be one of the reasons for low levels of thinness seen in our analysis, especially in the girls. The phenomenon where boys continue to gain height resulting in higher levels of thinness has also been seen in neighboring countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal (11%, 19.6%, 37.8% in boys and 5%, 15.4% and 26.2% in girls) [36][37][38].…”

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Nutritional status of Indian adolescents (15-19 years) from National Family Health Surveys 3 and 4: Revised estimates using WHO 2007 Growth reference

Bhargava

Ghate

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Background The National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) in India apply adult cutoffs of nutritional status for the estimation of undernutrition/overweight in the 15-19 age group. The prevalence of thinness in boys and girls thus estimated is 58.1% and 46.8% in NFHS-3, and 45% and 42% in NFHS-4 respectively. But the WHO recommends using age and sex-specific reference for adolescents. We reanalyzed the nutritional status of the adolescents using the WHO 2007 Growth Reference to obtain revised estimates of thinness, overweight and stunting across states, rural-urban residence, and wealth quintiles. Methods and findings Demographic information, anthropometric data, and wealth index were accessed from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) database. We re-analyzed the anthropometric data using WHO AnthroPlus software which uses the WHO 2007 Growth reference. The revised estimates of thinness assessed by BMI-forage z-scores in boys and girls was 22.3% (95% CI: 21.6, 23.0) and 9.9% (95%CI: 9.5, 10.3) in NFHS-3 and 16.5% (95%CI: 16.0,17.0) and 9% (95%CI: 8.9, 9.2) in NFHS-4 respectively. Stunting was found to be 32.2% (95% CI: 31.6, 32.9) in boys and 34.4% (95% CI: 34.2, 34.7) in girls in NFHS-4. This was higher than that in NFHS-3; 25.2% (95% CI: 24.4, 26) in boys and 31.2 (95% CI: 30.6, 31.8) in girls. There was a clear socioeconomic gradient as there were higher thinness and stunting in rural areas. There was wide variation among the states with pockets of a double burden of malnutrition.

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“…The prevalence of underweight, thinness and stunting among school children were 7.40%, 52.59% and 28.88% respectively. A similar type of study was conducted by Mansur et al, 12 reported the prevalence of underweight, thinness and stunting was 30.85%, 10.05% and 24.54% respectively. 12 Bose et al, 15 found 16.9% were underweight, 17.2% were stunting and 23.1% were thinness among children.…”

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“…A similar type of study was conducted by Mansur et al, 12 reported the prevalence of underweight, thinness and stunting was 30.85%, 10.05% and 24.54% respectively. 12 Bose et al, 15 found 16.9% were underweight, 17.2% were stunting and 23.1% were thinness among children. 15 Similarly, the study done by Shivaprakash and Joseph 2014 reported the overall prevalence of underweight and stunting in the studied school children was 30.3% and 27.9% respectively.…”

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Anthropometric Dimensions on Nutritional Grade among School Children

Prakash

Yadav

2017

JNHFE

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Background and objectives: The child under nutrition is highly prevalent in low income and middle-income countries resulting in substantial increases in mortality and overall disease burden. Therefore, the present study was designed to evaluate anthropometric dimensions on nutritional grade among school children at urban area of Dhanusha District, Nepal. Materials and methods:A cross-sectional observational survey was done in 135 school children of aged 4-15years. A semi structured questionnaire was used to collect data through face to face interview. Height, weight were measured in the metric system using standardized technique and BMI was also calculated comparing with the WHO standard. Data were analyzed using SPSS 18 version and Microsoft Excels 2007. The p-value was considered statistically significant at <0.05. Results:The prevalence of underweight, wasting and stunting was 7.40%, 52.59% and 28.88% respectively. The highest number of boys were in underweight than girls in 7-9years age and was statistically insignificant (p=0.451). Most of the boys were wasted than girls in 10-12years with 47.88% followed by 13-15years of 21.12% and was statistically insignificant (p=0.213). The highest number of respondents were stunting in 10-12years age of 48.71% followed by 13-15years age with 30.76% and was statistically insignificant(p=0.367). Conclusion:The prevalence of underweight was low, wasting was high and stunting was moderate among school children when compared with WHO standard. Government should introduce awareness programs through community participation, involvement of NGOs and other sectors affording nutritious foods.

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A Study on Nutritional Status of Rural School going Children in Kavre District

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Prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among school going adolescents of Dang district, Nepal

Prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among school going adolescents of Dang district, Nepal

Nutritional status of Indian adolescents (15-19 years) from National Family Health Surveys 3 and 4: Revised estimates using WHO 2007 Growth reference

Anthropometric Dimensions on Nutritional Grade among School Children

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