Assessment of Nutritional Status of School Going Adolescents in Fatehabad District of Haryana
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Nutrition - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Adolescents the future parent generation may be considered as the founder of better health of produced generation. Unfortunately, they have been considered a low risk group for poor health and nutrition and often receive scant attention. Two hundred school going adolescents (13-17y), comprising equal number of male and female and rural and urban adolescents were selected from the Fatehabad district. Nutritional status of adolescents was assessed in terms of anthropometric measurements and dietary survey. The information on dietary intakes of adolescents was collected using 24h recall method for two nonconsecutive days. Average daily nutrient intake was compared with the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) published by NIN, 2010. Nutrient Adequacy Ratio (NAR) for various nutrients was also calculated. Statistically data was analyzed using SPSS statistical package (version 14.0) for windows. P value less than 0.05 and 0.01 were considered statistically significant. Results showed that as per the scores of BMI for age 13 per cent of adolescents were wasted followed by overweight (8.5%) and as per the scores of height for age 14.5 per cent of them were stunted followed by severely stunted (3.5%). Prevalence of abdomen obesity among boys and girls was 2 and 49 percent, respectively (Table 2). The boys had significantly (chi-square 7.88; p<0.001) higher prevalence of wasting where as girls had significantly higher prevalence of overweight (chi-square 7.88; p<0.001), stunting (chi-square 6.46; p<0.05) and abdomen obesity (chi-square 27.49; p<0.001). The daily mean intake of energy, protein, calcium, iron, β-carotene, vitamin C and zinc in the diets of adolescents was significantly lower than their respective RDAs. The adolescents (13-17 y) of Fatehabad district were found to be at the risk of double burden of malnutrition they should be provided proper nutrition education.
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Varsha Rani
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