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Subject: Foods and Nutrition × Author: Sethi, Divya × End date: 2016 × Start date: 2011 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Assessment of nutritional status of pregnant women with special reference to anaemia and obesity in district Hisar ( Haryana)
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Sethi, Divya; Dahiya, Saroj
    The present study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state to assess the nutritional status of pregnant women and impart nutrition education to the selected pregnant women. A total of 250 subjects having pregnancy of third trimester selected randomly from different hospitals of district Hisar. Respondents from both govt. and private hospitals selected so as to draw a sample of both urban and rural women.Nutritional status of pregnant women was assessed in terms of dietary assessment, anthropometric measurement (height, weight and skin fold thickness) and clinical assessment of signs and symptoms of various nutrient deficiency diseases. Dietary assessment was done by 24 hour dietary recall method for three consecutive days of 100 respondents. The results of the study revealed that consumption of all food stuffs like cereals, pulses etc were lower in the diets of pregnant women. Nutrients like energy, fat, β- carotene, B-complex vitamins, Vitamin C, Iron and Calcium were found limiting in the diets of pregnant women. It was found that caste, family size, income, working status and education of respondents and husband‘s education had significant (P<0.05) effect on food intake of selected pregnant women. Effect of caste, family size,family type, income, respondent‘s occupation and education, husband‘s occupation and education were found to be significant (P<0.05) on nutrient intake of the pregnant women. Result indicated that out of 250 pregnant women 79.2 per cent pregnant women were anaemic while 20.8 per cent were non anaemic. Effect of type of family and income were significant (P < 0.05) on prevalence of anaemia. Majority 47.2% women were overweight, 25.2 percent obese, 22.8 percent normal weight and 4.8 percent underweight.Nutrition education was imparted to 50 selected pregnant women. It was found that majority of the responents had inadequate knowledge regarding nutrition before imparting nutrition education. After imparting nutritional education there was significant (P<0.01) improvement in knowledge of pregnant women in all the characteristics.
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    Assessment of nutritional status of (7-9 years) rural school going children of Fatehabad district, Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2012) Sethi, Divya; Sehgal, Salil
    The present study was conducted in Fate habad district of Hary ana state to assess the nutritional status of the rural school going c hildren and impar t nutrition educatio n to the mothers of selected school childre n. Two hundred c hildre n of 7-9 y ears age (100 boys and 100 girls) f rom two villages i.e . Bhora and Khara Khe r i of block Fatehabad were selected randomly . Nutr itional status of children was assessed in te rms of dietary assessment, anthropometr ic measureme nt (he ight, weight and skin fold thickness) and clinical assessment of signs and sy mptoms of var ious nutr ie nt def iciency diseases. Dietary assessment was done by 24 hour dietary recall method for three consecutive da y s of 100 childre n. The results of the study revealed that consumption of food stuffs like cereals, pulses etc were lower in the diets of rural school childre n. Nutrie nts like energy , fat, ‚- carotene, B-complex vitamins, Vitamin C, I ro n and Calcium were found limiting in the diets of school childre n. It was found that caste, family size, income, fathe r ís occupation and pare ntsí education had signif icant (P<0.05) effect on food intake of selected childre n. Ef fect of caste, family size, income, fathe r ís occupation and parentsí educatio n, were found to be signif icant (P<0.05) on nutr ie nt intake of the childre n. Caste, family size, family t y pe, income, pare ntsí occupation as well as education were found to have signif icant (P<0.05) effect on the anthropometric measurements of childre n. Nutritio n educatio n was impar ted to 50 mothe rs of the select ed childre n. It was found that major ity of the mothers had inadequate knowledge regarding nutr itio n before impar ting nutritio n education. Signif icant (P<0.01) increase in knowledge scores regarding importance of nutr ition and healthy and c heap diet was observed af ter imparting nutr itio n education to selected mothers.