An appraisal of nutritional status of adolescent girls with reference to socio-economic background

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dc.contributor.advisorKumari, Sunita
dc.contributor.authorDas, Debjani
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-19T06:19:30Z
dc.date.available2020-11-19T06:19:30Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractAdolescence is one of the most crucial periods in an individual life cycle. It is one of the complex periods and in this particular period an individual requires special care and attention, because it is the time when body requires more nutrients. During this period, proper dietary habits and correct nutritional knowledge is very important for their proper physical, mental, cognitive and overall growth and development. There are various factors which affect adolescent’s health and nutritional status directly or indirectly such as inadequate nutrition, lack of awareness about health and nutrition, early marriage, high migration rate and so on. Poor socio economic status and low literacy level is a significant aspect which often leads to under nutrition in adolescent girls. Several recent studies have reported that adolescent girls from every corner of India particularly from rural areas had poor health status and the roots of this problem was found that most of the adolescents were not aware about proper dietary pattern and also lack of nutritional knowledge. Freedom from poor health and nutritional status is a basic human right for every individual. Proper nutritional knowledge and dietary pattern could be a significant step towards breaking the vicious cycle of poor nutritional status and also change the attitude towards wrong practices of food consumption. The present study was carried out with the objective to assess the nutritional status and to screen the anaemic adolescent girls belonging to different socio-economic groups. To impart nutrition education, giving dietary counselling, monitoring the dietary habits and assess the impact of nutrition education on the adolescent girls. On the whole, there are 20 blocks in Samastipur district. Pusa block was selected out of the 20 block purposively for this study. From the selected block, two villages (Bhuskaul and Harpur) were chosen. The study was carried out on 100 adolescent girls belonging to 15-19 years age group and categorized them into three socio-economic groups i.e. lower class, middle class and upper class. A well structured interview schedule was developed in order to extract relevant information from the selected respondents. The information related to dietary intake, food habit and knowledge about the food was obtained through interview schedules and food consumption of the subjects was assessed using a 3 days 24-hour dietary recall method. To assess the impact of nutrition knowledge of adolescent girls, pre and post test were conducted. Data were investigated as per the objectives of the study. The qualitative and significant data were coded, tabulated and compiled to draw meaningful inferences. Based on general information out of total subjects, maximum of respondents belonged to General caste i.e. 42 per cent. Remaining 29 per cent, 20 per cent and 9 per cent of respondents were from OBC, Backward caste and SC category respectively. Majority of the respondent i.e.75 per cent were Hindus whereas only 25 per cent respondents belonged to Muslim community. Out of total 100 respondents, majority of the subjects were from nuclear family i.e. 73 per cent and 27 per cent were from joint family. Around 41 per cent of respondents had 2-6 family members, 30 per cent had 7-9 family members and 29 per cent had more than 10 members in family. Data on anthropometric measurement showed that with increasing age (15-19) years the mean height and weight almost increased in all socio-economic groups but when initial height and weight was compared with standard values a gradual decline were found. Out of total 100 subjects, the prevalence of severe thinness, moderate thinness and mild thinness among respondents were found to be 8 per cent, 14 per cent and 38 per cent respectively. Only 38 per cent of respondents had normal BMI. It was found that two per cent of respondents were lying in category of overweight. Results of haemoglobin status showed that in lower class the prevalence of mild, moderate and severe anaemia were found to be 41.02 per cent, 23.08 per cent and 3.85 per cent respectively. In middle class family, 28.57 per cent girls suffered from mild anaemia and 14.29 per cent girls suffered from moderate anaemia. Around 25 per cent girls belonging from upper class suffered from mild anaemia. It showed that adolescent girls from lower class were found to be more anaemic as compared to middle class and upper class. It was observed that almost every adolescent girl preferred consuming fast food. Skipping of breakfasts and snacks were also more in those selected girls. Average daily intake of foods stuffs and nutrients by respondents of each income group was very less as per the recommended values. The present study indicated that the nutritional status of adolescent girls was poor in each income group irrespective of their class. Before imparting nutrition education and dietary counselling, it was observed that none of the adolescent girls of any income groups had proper nutritional knowledge and dietary habits. But after imparting nutrition education and counselling, positive changes were seen in adolescents of every income group. Further it was also observed that the intake of all food stuffs and nutrients was slightly increased by respondents of each socio-economic group. So from the findings of present study it can be clearly concluded that lack of awareness of nutritional knowledge, poor dietary habits along with low economic status can be adversely affect the nutritional status of adolescents. It also showed that proper nutritional knowledge can influence the consumption pattern and change the attitude towards wrong practices of food consumption and also improve the nutritional status of the consumer.en_US
dc.identifier.otherM/FN/482/2018-19
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810155253
dc.keywordsFood, Nutrition, Adolescent, Girl, Socio, Economicen_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.pages91 p. ; vii (Bibliography), xiv (Appendices)en_US
dc.publisherDRPCAU, Pusaen_US
dc.subFood and Nutritionen_US
dc.themeAn appraisal of nutritional status of adolescent girls with reference to socio-economic backgrounden_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleAn appraisal of nutritional status of adolescent girls with reference to socio-economic backgrounden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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