Distribution and determinants of common morbidities among adolescent girls in an urban slum of Pune- A clinical study
Journal Title: Harsukh Educational Charitable Society International Journal of Community Health and Medical Research - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Background: Adolescent is a period of transition from childhood to adulthood. It is the period of life between ages of 10-19 years. The present study was conducted to study the distribution and determinants of common morbidities among adolescent girls in an urban slum of Pune. Materials & Methods: The study population comprised of 230 girls in age range 10 - 19 yrs in the households in the urban area. In this study socio-demographic profile (age, education & occupation of parents, family income and size), anthropometric measurements (height, weight and BMI) dietary history (through semi quantitative food frequency questionnaire) and clinical examination to assess the signs of nutritional deficiencies were assessed. Results: The majority of the adolescent girls were in the age group of 14-16 years (54.02%) followed by 11-13years (33.03%) age group. Subjects had completed high school education 118(52.4%) followed by middle school 80 (35.6%) and only 10.7% had completed intermediate and above. Subjects belonged to birth order 1(35.71%) or 2 (34.82%) followed by birth order 3.Only around 10% belong to 4 and above birth order. Out of 224 girls, 172 (76.8%) (95% C.I. 73.48-80.12) had started having menstruation while in 23.2% menstruation had not started. T Conclusion: The common factors responsible for these morbidities are large family size, lower literacy status of parents, lower socioeconomic status, overcrowding, poor personal hygiene, poor dietary habits however in our study a significant association was found in the presence of anemia with history of passing worms in stools, underweight where as the other factors mentioned above were not found to be having an statistically significant association.
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Lt Col Neha Joshi, Manoj Kumar, Kunal Chatterjee, Vipin Kumar, Varisha Pandey
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