Abstract:The study was to determine the iodine status of preschool children in Rivers State, Nigeria. A cross‐sectional study design and an experimental design were employed in the study. The population comprised all preschool children in Rivers State. A multistage sampling procedure was used to draw a sample size of 330 preschool children. Early morning casual urine samples were collected from the pupils for the analysis of urinary iodine concentration (UIC) using the sensitive colorimetric method of the Sandell–Kelth… Show more
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