Assessment of Nutritional Status of Under Five Children Residing in Rural Area of Kerala State
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Background:. Malnutrition in children is the consequence of a range of factors like poverty, ignorance, illiteracy etc. and is often related to intake of poor quality food, insufficient food intake and severe and repeated infectious diseases or some combination of these three. Objectives: To assess the prevalence of under nutrition status of children less than 5 years in the rural field practise area of DMIMS, Wayanad district of Kerala. Materials and Methods: A community based cross sectional study was conducted in the Waynad district of Kerala from June to July 2015. According to the National family health survey 3, the prevalence of underweight among children is 37.6% 3 at 95 % confidence interval, with 5% relative precision the worked out sample size is 360 using the statistical formula n = (1.96)2 x p x q / l2 . Results: In our study the percentage of children classified as underweight, stunted and wasted was 48.4%, 60.9% and 32.8 % respectively. Conclusion: The majority of children were within the normal range of WHO 2006 growth Charts
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Chethan T K
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