A comparative study of nutritional status of adolescent school students at Pusa block in Samastipur district.
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2015
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Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur)
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Adolescents are the building resources and the future citizen of the nation. A healthy educated adolescent of today will be active and intelligent citizen of tomorrow. In India, adolescent comprises a population of 236.5 million which is 19.6 percent of total population while in Bihar, it comprises 22.5 percent of total population of the state (Census 2011). Adolescence is a period of rapid growth, up to 45% of skeletal growth and 15 to 25% of adult height is achieved during adolescence. It is a period when a diet of good quality is essential in establishing healthy dietary intake behaviours to reduce adult morbidity and mortality.
For this study, two government and two private schools were selected for the present study. Sixty students from each schools of class VIIIth and IXth were selected purposively. Thus total 120 adolescent were selected for the present investigation.
General information and socio-economic status of the subjects were obtained through a detailed interview scheduled. Nutritional status of subjects were evaluated by anthropometric measurement, haemoglobin level, clinical examination and dietary intake. Measurement of height, weight, haemoglobin level and dietary pattern were done. Also the life style pattern and energy expenditure in different activities were examined. Dietary intake of all the subjects were calculated through 24-hours recall method.
Based on general information out of total subjects, majority of the adolescent were of 14 years and 15 years age group and were non-vegetarian. The socio-economic status of private school adolescent were found better than that of the government school adolescent.
The anthropometric measurements of the subjects showed that the physical growth of Private school adolescent were better than the Government school adolescent. The hemoglobin level of Private school subjects were found better than the government school subjects. Also the nutrient intake of Private school adolescent were better than the Government school adolescent.
The Private school subjects were more participating in sports while the Government school subjects were more participating in domestic work. The consumption of snacks items and non-veg, was more for Private school adolescent. The Private school adolescent were also watching T.V and searching networking sites for longer time in comparison to the Government school adolescent.
The energy expenditure in different physical activities of Government school adolescents were found more than that of the Private school adolescents.
The observation of deficiency sign were found more in case of government school adolescent.
A positive and significant correlationship were found between income of the family with height, weight and BMI of Government School adolescent. Energy and height of Government school adolescent and weight and BMI of Private school adolescent. With protein, iron and calcium intake the weight and BMI of Private School adolescent was significant while with Government school adolescent protein was significant with weight, fat with BMI and calcium with weight and BMI. The protein and iron intake was found significant with haemoglobin level of Government school adolescent. The income of family was found significant with protein, fat and calcium in Government school subjects while in Private school subjects it was significant with protein intake. The difference between Government and Private school adolescent household activities were found significant.
T-test was also computed to found the statistical difference between Government and Private school subjects nutrient intake. The energy, protein, iron and calcium intake differences between Government and Private school subjects were found statistically non-significant while the fat intake was found statistically significant and positive. The Government school adolescent were consuming less fat than the Private school adolescent. This may due to the reason that the Private school adolescent children were consuming more snacks and junk foods and oily foods and do sedentary works than the Government school children. Also their duration of watching T.V is more compared to Government school adolescent and hence consuming more snacks during this period.
T-test was also computed for the energy expenditure of Government and Private school adolescents. The difference was found positive and significant. The Government school adolescent were expending more energy than the Private school adolescent. This may be due to the reason that Private school adolescent were doing more sedentary work than the Government school adolescent children. The Private school adolescent were giving more time in watching T.V. , using networking sites and in their study while Government school adolescent were giving more time in physical activities and domestic work.
It can be concluded that the nutritional status of Government and Private School adolescents are more or less similar. The parents are more conscious for their child health and hence the physical and mental growths of adolescents are good.
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