A study of prevalence of anemia in the school going adolescents’ girls in the field practice area UHTC of tertiary health care centers
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: Adolescence has been defined by the World Health Organization as the period of life spanning the ages between 10 to 19 years. Aims and Objectives: To study the prevalence of Anemia in the school going adolescents girls in the field practice area UHTC of tertiary health care centers. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study carried out in the school going adolescent girls (10-19 Yrs.) by taking the consent of parents and school head master all the girls in all schools nearer to field practice area were surveyed in the one year period i.e. May 2017 to May 2018 . In the one year period there were 641 girls enrolled into the study. The information of participants like age, results of CBC and peripheral smear were entered in the excel sheets and statistical analysis done by SPSS 19 version software. Result In our study The overall prevalence of anemia in adolescent girls was 23.71%, The majority of the patients were in the age group of 10-13 Yrs. were 33.58% followed by 13-16 Yrs. were 28.00%, in 16-19 were 18.21%. This observed difference is statistically significant (χ2 =14.72, df= 2, p<0.005). The majority of the patients were Normal (>12) i.e. 76.29%, followed by Mild anaemia (11-11.9).In 13.10%, Moderate anaemia (8-10.9) in 9.83%, Severe (<8) in 1.56%. On peripheral smear Normocytic Normochromic anemia present in 53.50% followed by Microcytic hypochromic anemia in 36.31%, Dichromic in 10.19%. Conclusion: It can be concluded from our study that the overall prevalence of anemia was 23.71% The majority of the patients were in the age group of 10-13 Yrs, the most commonly anemia was moderate severity and Normocytic Normochromic, Microcytic hypochromic
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S Chenna Krishna Reddy, Mohammad Rafi
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