Study of anemia among adolescent school girls and young adults

Abstract

Background: The world’s adolescent population (age 10–19 years) is estimated to stand at more than 1 Billion, yet adolescents remain largely neglected, difficult-to-measure, and hard-to-reach. Population in which the needs of adolescent girls, in particular, are often ignored. Anemia during adolescence limits growth and delays the onset of menarche, which in turn may later lead to cephalopelvic disproportion. In armed forces young serving soldiers make the backbone of forces, anemia in this group affects man hour badly. So, study was planned to assess prevalence of anemia in these two groups.Methods: A prospective study was carried out with 340 girls and 500 serving adults and prevalence of anemia was carried out with respect to different prevailing factors.Results: The prevalence of severe, moderate and mild anemia in girls was 0.5%, 10.6% and 27.9% respectively and in serving soldiers prevalence of anemia was 1.8%, 2.8% and 3.4 % respectively.Conclusions: In the present study, the prevalence of anemia was found to be 39% in adolescent girls and 8% in serving soldiers. Strongest predictor to anemia in adolescent girls was history of excessive menstrual bleeding and vegetarian diet. Age group, age at menarche and BMI did not affect anemia prevalence. Strongest predictor to anemia in soldiers was age.

Prevalence of anaemia among school going adolescent girls attending Test, Treat and Talk (T-3) camp under Anaemia Mukt Bharat in Delhi

“…Whereas other studies reported higher prevalence of anaemia among late adolescent than early adolescent. [ 12 13 15 16 19 ] The high prevalence of anaemia among early adolescent age group in our study may be due to the small sample size of our study and low number of participants in late adolescent age group.…”

“…The mean (±SD) Hb of 203 adolescent girls who participated in the study was 11.3 gm/dl (±1.55) which was similar to one reported by Rakesh Kumar et al . [ 12 ] and Kaur S et al . [ 13 ] In the present study, the prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls found to be 59% which was similar to that reported by NFHS-4[ 3 ] (54%), DLHS-3[ 14 ] (57.9%), Kaur S et al .…”

“…Various studies on prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls reported prevalence ranging from 39% to 90% in different parts of India. [ 12 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ] This vast range of prevalence of anaemia may be due to different methods of haemoglobin estimation, different study settings and different study periods. Few studies had adopted standard method for haemoglobin estimation, thus calling for a uniform prospective study of adolescent population using digital haemoglobinometer with high precision.…”

“…[ 5 ] in central Kerala, Kumar A et al . [ 12 ] in Jorhat, Agrawal A et al . [ 19 ] in Udupi and Patil N et al .…”

Hubungan Pengetahuan Remaja Putri Tentang Konsumsi Zat Besi Dengan Kejadian Anemia Di SMP 18 Surakarta

“…Menurut Gupta et al (2018) asupan mikronutrien berupa zat besi dan kalsium pada remaja perempuan umumnya kurang adekuat. Hal ini dapat disebabkan oleh menstruasi yang dan diet vegetarian yang dilakukan oleh remaja perempuan [26] . Tablet besi diperlukan tubuh karena seiring bertambah usia, aktivitas tubuh yang banyak, dan menstruasi pada remaja perempuan maka kebutuhan akan zat besi ikut meningkat.…”