A Study of Nutritional Status of Children Attending Anganwadi Centres of a District in Central India
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 7
Abstract
Introduction: The burden of under-nutrition among children has not changed much even though various intervention programs are in opera-tion in India. The study was con-ducted to assess the magnitude of under nutrition among children under 6 year of age and to study fac-tors associated with under-nutrition of selected children. Material & Methods: This commu-nity based cross sectional study had utilized two stage sampling tech-nique. Sample size was determined by the use of formula 4pq/l2. In first stage, selection of anganwadi cen-ters (AWC) was done by using sim-ple random sampling method. In second stage, children were selected from selected AWCs. Result: Out of total 380 children 192 boys and 188 were girls. 180 (47.4%) children were under nutrition out of which 99 (55%) children were of grade I, 62(34.4) were grade II and 19 (10.6%) children were of grade III as per the Indian Association of Pe-diatrics (IAP) classification of under nutrition. Conclusion: Among the factors studied, educational status of moth-er and socio-economic status of family were most strongly associat-ed with the under nutrition.
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Anil Singh Baghel, Saket Kale, Arpit Verma, Sanjay Kumar Chourasiya
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