Impact Of Educational Status of Parents on Nutritional Status of Adolescent Girls-A Cross Sectional Study
| Autor: | Sujit K Singh, Gagan Garg, Sanjeev Davey, Santosh Kumar Raghav, Khursheed Muzammil, Jai Vir Singh |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | National Journal of Community Medicine, Vol 5, Iss 03 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0976-3325 2229-6816 |
| Popis: | Background: Adolescent is a period where significant growth changes occur necessitating optimum nutritional requirement. During adolescence 20% of adult height attained and 50% of adult bone mass gained. Girls deposit twice as much body fat as boys at this time and boys double their lean body mass. As a result nutrition requirement peak in adolescent. Failure to achieve optimum nutrition intake at this time can potentially retard physical growth, intellectual capacity and sexual maturation. Objective of this study was to study the effects of parental education on nutrional status of the adolescent girl. Material and Methods: A community based cross sectional study was carried out among 400 randomly selected adolescent girls belonging to makhinagarkhalapar block which is the field practice area of Muzaffarnagar Medical College, Muzaffarnagar (UP). The data was recorded in pre-designed and semi-structured Questionnaire. Results: The proportion of adolescent girls aged 10-14 years and 15-19 years comprised of 41.2% and 58.8% respectively. Under nutrition was maximum (50%) in adolescent girls whose mothers were illiterate followed by 41% in girls whose mothers were just literate (p |
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