Nutritional Status of Rural School Children of Dharwad and Jhansi Region Participating in Mid Day Meal Programme
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
School children constitute a major segment of the community whose health and nutritional status will indicate the changing trend of the nutritional profile of a region. With the most prime objective “to improve nutritional status and educational status of school children”, Mid Day Meal Programme (MDMP) was launched on 15th august 1995 as a centrally sponsored programme. The comparative study was conducted in the purposively selected two villages of Garag and Yettingudda of Dharwad district of northern Karnataka and the two villages of Bhojla and Simarddha of Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh. From each village 30 rural schools were randomly selected for the study. A total of 120 rural school children of 5th, 6th, 7th standard belonged to 10-13 years age group were selected purposively for comparison of their nutritional status of the two states. The anthropometric measurements viz., height, weight and mid upper arm circumference were taken to assess their nutritional status through using Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) classification. Suitable statistical parameters were used to analyze the data, such as frequency, percentage, student’s ttest. The results showed that an equal number of school children (30.00%) in Dharwad region belonged to Grade II and Grade III malnutrition respectively. Whereas, in Jhansi region, 36.70 percent school children belonged to Grade II malnutrition. The difference in all the means related to height, weight and mid upper arm circumference was not statistically significant in case of both the genders. The mean weight and height of rural school children of both the regions was significantly increased (p<0.05) according to the age. As comparison, the total mean weight (29.31 Kg) and total mean height (137.38 cm) of rural school children of Dharwad region was slightly higher than the total mean weight (28.18 Kg) and total mean height (135.22 cm) of rural school children of Jhansi region. Nutritional status of rural school children of Dharwad region was found better than nutritional status of rural school children in Jhansi region. It can be concluded that the nutritional status of rural school children of Dharwad region was found better than rural school children in Jhansi region.
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Neha Singh, Chhaya Badiger
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