Nutrient adequacy of school going children can be determined by dietary diversity scores within different food groups
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
The adequate amount of nutrient intake required at the age of pre-puberty in girls is the prerequisite for good health and overall development. The present cross sectional study was conducted to find nutrient intake adequacy in school going girls through dietary diversity score calculation. 10-12 years girls of HIG (high income group) and MIG (medium income group) of Allahabad were decided as population. 50 HIG and 50 MIG girls were drawn randomly after age based stratification. 24 hrs dietary recalls was taken for three days and the consumption of only home cooked food was recorded. DDS (dietary diversity scores) and NAR (nutrient adequacy ratio) were calculated. Student’s t-test was applied for finding the significant difference. Pearson’s correlation was applied to find the relation between DDS and NAR. Significant difference was found in the DDS of fruits, meat and vegetables of the two comparative groups. Maximum scores of dietary diversity were of vegetables (1.71) and grains (1.62) in MIG girls and of fruits (1.73) and meat (2.00) in HIG girls. The correlation between DDS and the NAR is significant and positive which concluded that on increasing dietary diversity within the food group, nutrient adequacy of nutrient was also increased.
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Zoomi Singh, Reena Chaturvedi, Ena Gupta
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