Nutritional status of school going adolescent girls in Lucknow District

Sachan, Beena; Idris, M Z; Jain, Swapnil; Kumari, Reema; Singh, Ashutosh

doi:10.4103/2278-019x.101298

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“…23 A study conducted by Sachan B et al also observed that in urban girls of Lucknow the prevalence of overweight was more (5.4%) than in rural girls (3.9%). 24 These findings were in concordance with our study. However, contrary to this Kowasalya T et al reported that the prevalence rate of overweight/obesity was higher in rural (13.16%) than urban (11.33%) area in adolescents (Salem, India).…”

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A study on the prevalence of thinness and obesity in school going adolescent girls of Kashmir Valley

Ali

Shah

Fazili

et al. 2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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A study on the prevalence of thinness and obesity in school going adolescent girls of Kashmir Valley

Ali

Shah

Fazili

et al. 2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…13 Hence our recommendation will be following. a) Health education is important for improving the health status of adolescent girls and this should be imparted in all the schools either by taking help of local medical officer or a teacher of the school itself.…”

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“…(In Lucknow District 70% of the population lives in urban area and 30% of the population lives in rural area). 6 The socio-demographic data of all the adolescent girl was recorded. Bio-social characteristic of adolescent girl were Age, Birth order, total family member, type of family, religion, caste, education status, education and occupation of parent's total family income, with the help of these per capita income was calculated.…”

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A study on the morbidity pattern in adolescent school girls

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Gupta

Sachan³

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined adolescence as the age group of 10-19 years. According to World Health Organisation, adolescents constitute about one fifth of the world population, and in India they constitute about 21% of the total population. Adolescent girls are the worst sufferers of various forms of malnutrition because of their increased nutritional needs and low social power. If their nutritional needs are not met, they are likely to give birth to undernourished children, thus transmitting under nutrition to future generation. Objective was to study the various socio-demographic factors affecting the nutritional status in adolescent girls. Methods: A school based cross-sectional study was carried out in Lucknow district. Adolescent girls of age groups 10-19 years were included in the study. Data was collected, compiled and tabulated using Microsoft Excel and analysed using SPSS 17.0 version for calculation of percentages. Results: Rural background, low socioeconomic status, illiteracy, birth rate and order, income and number of members in a family have shown to be significant determinants of morbidity pattern in the adolescent girls. Conclusions: Among the various morbidities eye problem was seen in maximum no of adolescent girls. Eye problem was present in 31% of adolescent girls followed by respiratory (12.8%) and ear (11.5%) disease. Skin disease was present in 3.1% of adolescent girls, which was more in rural girls than in urban girls, may be due to better hygienic practice in urban school girls.

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“…In both urban and rural school girls, a maximum of 35.2% and 52.1%, protein deficit from RDA was in 14-16 age group schools girls in both urban and rural schools respectively (Table-5). 7 Our study revealed that the mean age of urban school girls was 14.2 years (SD±2.1) and in rural schools it was 14.3 years (SD±2.0) with overall mean age of 14.12 years (SD±2.1). In urban schools a maximum of 38.2% adolescent girls belonged to SES-II and in rural schools a maximum of 55.2% girls belonged to SES-III.…”

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confidence: 94%