Nutritional Status of Rural Govt. Primary School Children in Khammam District, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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dc.contributor.authorMondal, R
dc.contributor.authorBiswas, T
dc.contributor.authorKumar, B P Ravi
dc.contributor.authorArlappa, N
dc.contributor.authorChatterjee, C
dc.contributor.authorMajumder, A
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-08T07:48:37Z
dc.date.available2016-11-08T07:48:37Z
dc.date.issued2015-07
dc.description.abstractBackground: Rural school children are more vulnerable victims of undernutrition and its consequences. On that ground, rural govt. primary school children were examined on the basis of height, weight and few background variables to find real picture of nutritional status. Objective: To assess nutritional status of govt. rural primary school children in Khammam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study adopting a multistage random sampling technique was conducted among 600 govt. primary school children of rural communities of Khammam district, Andhra Pradesh. Anthropometric measurement like weight for age and height for age was recorded to assess nutritional status. Data were collected by interview and physical examination and were analyzed with SPSS10.0 Results: Among 600 children, 36.0% were in Grade I malnutrition, 37.7% in Grade II malnutrition, 6.3% in Grade III and 19.0% of children were stunted and 4.0% were severely stunted. Girls (20.1%) were more stunted than boys (17.9%). Conclusions: The study concluded that despite adoption of several measures to curb the malnutrition, still high prevalence of undernutrition was observed in govt. rural primary school children in India and to be addressed properly immediately.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMondal R, Biswas T, Kumar B P Ravi, Arlappa N, Chatterjee C, Majumder A. Nutritional Status of Rural Govt. Primary School Children in Khammam District, Andhra Pradesh, India. International Journal of Medical and Dental Sciences. 2015 July; 4(2): 818-827.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/178305
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.source.urihttps://ijmds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/818-827-Ju-RA-Status.pdfen_US
dc.subjectSchool childrenen_US
dc.subjectMalnutritionen_US
dc.subjectstuntingen_US
dc.subjectweighten_US
dc.subjectheighten_US
dc.subjectgender discriminationen_US
dc.titleNutritional Status of Rural Govt. Primary School Children in Khammam District, Andhra Pradesh, India.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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