Assessment of nutritional status of (7-9 years) rural school going children of Fatehabad district, Haryana

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dc.contributor.advisorSehgal, Salil
dc.contributor.authorSethi, Divya
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-26T14:35:58Z
dc.date.available2016-10-26T14:35:58Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/82192
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCCSHAUen_US
dc.subFoods and Nutrition
dc.subjectSchool children, Nutritional assessment, Dietary assessment, Anthropometric measurement, Nutrition educationen_US
dc.these.typeM.Sc
dc.titleAssessment of nutritional status of (7-9 years) rural school going children of Fatehabad district, Haryanaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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