Nutritional Status of Adolescent Girls from Rural Communities of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Mulugeta, Afework; Hagos, Fitsum; Stoecker, Barbara J.; Kruseman, Gideon; Linderhof, Vincent; Abraha, Zenebe; Mekonen, Yohannes; Samuel, G.G.

doi:10.4314/ejhd.v23i1.44831

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“…Despite the fact that community based nutrition program will improve the nutritional status of women and children, prevalence of low BMI-for-age and Low height-for-age in adolescent girls were found to be high in the study setting which were 13.6 % and 31.5 % respectively. The prevalence of low BMI-for-age is comparable with the national nutrition baseline survey report for the NNP of Ethiopia which was14% [15] and lower than a study done in northern part of Ethiopia (58.3 %) [16] and Varanasi rural India (26.6 %) [17]. However, the prevalence is higher than a study in Addis Abeba Ethiopia (6.2 %) [18].…”

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Predictors of nutritional status of Ethiopian adolescent girls: a community based cross sectional study

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Background: Malnutrition is a major health issue affecting children, women and adolescents globally and developing countries in particular. Adolescence is a time of enormous physiological, cognitive, and psychosocial change but it remain a neglected, difficult-to-measure and hard-to-reach population. The critical role of adolescent nutrition in the intergenerational cycle of Growth failure has not been well addressed in Ethiopia. Hence, this study assesses level of low BMI-for-age and height-for-age and their associated factors among adolescent girls in northwest Ethiopia. Methods: Community based cross-sectional quantitative study was employed. A total of 1281 adolescent girls were included in the study. Multistage cluster sampling method was used. Pretested questionnaire were used to collect the data. The collected data were entered in to Epi Info version 3.5.3 and exported to SPSS version 20.0 software packages for further statistical analysis. The data were analyzed using bivariate and multivariate logistic regression. The degree of association between dependent and independent variables were assessed using odds ratio with 95 % confidence interval and variables with p-value ≤0.05 were considered significant. Result: The prevalence of girls with BMI-for-age Z-score < −2 were 13.6 % and height-for-age Z-score < −2 were 31.5 %. Being in the age group 10-14 years (AOR = 5.83, 95 % CI: 3.26, 10.44), being in the age group 15-17 years (AOR = 2.06, 95 % CI: 1.09, 3.89), with poor dietary diversity score (AOR = 2.48, 95 % CI: 1.60, 3.84), utilizing community based nutrition service (AOR = 0.67, 95 % CI: 0.47, 0.95) were factors significantly associated with thinness in adolescent girls. Being on the age group 10-14 years (AOR = 6.07, 95 % CI: 4.00,9.22), being on the age group 15-17(AOR = 1.39, 95 % CI: 1.93, 2.09), had nutrition and health information(AOR = 1.94, 95 % CI: 1.46, 2.57), living in food secured households (AOR:0.65, 95 % CI: 0.50, 0.84) were factors affecting low height-for-age in study subjects. Conclusion: Finding of this study indicated that prevalence of adolescents with low BMI-for-age and low height-for-age Z-score < −2 were high. Age, dietary diversity score and community based nutrition service utilization were factors affecting low BMI-for-Age in adolescent girls. Age, food insecurity and Nutrition and health information were factors affecting low height-for-age in adolescent girls. Improving community based nutrition service utilization, food security specially in young adolescents is highly recommended.

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Predictors of nutritional status of Ethiopian adolescent girls: a community based cross sectional study

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“…Present study showed that, a tendency towards an increase nutritional status in adolescent girls with an increase in the level of their education. This may due to the relatively better understanding of public health knowledge to improve the nutritional status of adolescent girls (Mulugeta et al, 2009). …”

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“…According to WHO (2006) adolescence as the period in human growth and development that occurs after childhood and before adulthood, from ages 10 to19. Biological processes drive many aspects of this growth and development, with the onset of puberty marking the passage from childhood to adolescence (Mulugeta et al, 2009) Growth during adolescence is faster than at any other time in an individual's life except the first year. Good nutrition during adolescence is critical to cover the deficits suffered during childhood and should include nutrients required to meet the demands of physical and cognitive growth and development, provide adequate stores of energy for illnesses and pregnancy and prevent adult onset of nutrition-related diseases (WHO, 2006).…”

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Nutritional status of adolescent girls in a rural area of Bangladesh: A cross sectional study

Begum

Sharmin

Hossain

et al. 2017

Bangladesh J. Sci. Ind. Res.

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The improvement of adolescent nutritional status may help address the reduction of all forms of malnutrition in Bangladesh. This is because at this stage, they experience a growth spurt thus increasing the need for most nutrients, needed for growth and reproductive health. The objective of this research was to assess the nutritional status of adolescent girls in rural areas of Bangladesh and find out the associated factors that affects nutritional status. A cross sectional study was carried out among 106 adolescent girls of Nobabpur village in Comilla district. A questionnaire was developed to obtain demographic information, food intake pattern and anthropometric measures such as weight, height with measuring instruments. About 80% were found normal according to BMI where about 13% adolescent girls were malnourished, below the cut off value 18.5. Place of residence, education of adolescent girls, their family expenditure to food and improper knowledge on food and nutrition were identified as underlying causes. Nutritional profiles of adolescent girl can be improved by implementing effective nutrition education program, providing supplementary food, facilitating primary health care program and creating awareness about nutritional knowledge. Severely malnourished adolescent girl in the selected area should be identified as early as possible and brought under supplementary feeding program.

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“…Furthermore, previous study done in India found that majority of adolescent girls were under nourished [9] and nutritional difficulties have been shown to have consequences especially on adolescent girls [10]. Consequently, if the nutritional needs of adolescent girls are not met they are likely to give birth to undernourished children, thus transmitting undernourishment to future generation [11]. The nutritional status of adolescent girls, the future mothers, contributes to the nutritional status of the community [12].…”

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Nutritional Status of Day and Boarding Female Adolescent Secondary School Students in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State

Ekanah¹

2017

JFNS

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Nutrient intake during adolescence is of critical importance because this period is characterized by an exceptionally rapid rate of growth. The poor nutritional status of adolescents, especially girls, has important implications in terms of physical work capacity and adverse reproductive outcomes. Thus, a study on the nutritional patterns of adolescent girls is imperative to improve their growth rate and reproductive outcomes. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the nutritional status of day and boarding students in public secondary schools in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State. The study was a comparative cross sectional study which sampled a total of 326 students from secondary schools in Warri South L. G. A. of Delta State. A semi-structured questionnaire was self-administered to obtain information on respondents' socio-demographic characteristics, nutritional pattern and factors influencing adolescent nutrition. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square test and ANOVA were used to analyse the data with level of significance set at 0.05. The results show that the mean age of the respondents was 12.27±1.79 years with majority in the age bracket of between 10-15 years of age and more as day students 58.90% than boarding students 41.10%. Assessment of the nutritional status of day and boarding students show that 11.20% of the boarding students were underweight as compared to 9.40% of the day students, 87.30% were of normal weight as compared to 80.70% of the day students. However, only 4.20% of the day students were overweight as compared to 1.50% of the boarding students and 5.70% of the day students were obese as compared to none among the boarding students. Factors that significantly influences the nutritional status of the students were mothers level of education and occupation, non-palatability of the food in the hostels and skipping of meals especially by the boarders (P<0.05). Therefore, concerted efforts should be made by all stakeholders in the education ministry (Government, School Authorities and Parents) to improve the meal of the students residing in the hostels in secondary schools nationwide; while parents should continually make it a duty to improve the meals of their children at home especially the adolescent girls who are still growing in order to enhance their physical work capacity, reproductive and pregnancy outcomes and birth weight.

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Nutritional Status of Adolescent Girls from Rural Communities of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Cited by 86 publications

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Predictors of nutritional status of Ethiopian adolescent girls: a community based cross sectional study

Predictors of nutritional status of Ethiopian adolescent girls: a community based cross sectional study

Nutritional status of adolescent girls in a rural area of Bangladesh: A cross sectional study

Nutritional Status of Day and Boarding Female Adolescent Secondary School Students in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State

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