The Silent Burden of Anemia among the Rural Adolescent Girls: A Community Based Study in Maharashtra
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 5
Abstract
Introduction: Adolescent girls con-stitute a more vulnerable group par-ticularly in developing countries where they are traditionally married at an early age and exposed to the risk of reproductive morbidity and mortality. So, the present study was planned to find out prevalence of anemia and associated epidemio-logical factors in relation to anemia among rural adolescent girls. Material and method: It is a com-munity‑ based cross‑ sectional, de-scriptive observational study was conducted in the rural field practice areas of tertiary rural hospital. All the villages coming under field practice area of tertiary rural hospi-tal were included in the study. A pre‑designed and pre‑tested ques-tionnaire was used for data collec-tion. Results: Mean age of adolescent girls was 13.77± 2.42. Among the 480 adolescent girls covered in the study 72.5% were found to be ane-mic. Prevalence of mild and moder-ate anemia among adolescent girls was 34.19% and 65.81% respective-ly. Study found significant associa-tion of anemia with socioeconomic status , type of family, father’s oc-cupation, father’s education, moth-ers education and mothers occupa-tion. Conclusion: The prevalence of ane-mia among adolescent girls was high and associated with socioeco-nomic status, type of family, father’s occupation, mothers education.
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Jyoti D Bhise, Deepali S. Deo
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