Prevalence of Anemia among Adolescent Girls in Rural Area of a District of Maharashtra

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dc.contributor.authorNair, Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorDoibale, MK.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-09T06:12:09Z
dc.date.available2023-08-09T06:12:09Z
dc.date.issued2023-03
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: Nutritional anemia is one of India’s major public health problems. Adolescence is a vulnerable period in the human life cycle for the development of nutritional anemia. Anemia in adolescent girls contributes to maternal and foetal mortality and morbidity in future. Aim and Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of anemia among adolescent girls and to study the sociodemographic factors associated with anemia. Method: It was a community based cross sectional study in 10 villages of a district. 420 adolescent girls were interviewed using a predesigned, pretested questionnaire, and their anemic status was assessed by hemoglobin estimation. Results were analyzed by using percentage, proportion and Chi-square test, with the help of Microsoft Excel 2007 and SPSS version 20.0 statistical software. Result: Mean age of the study sample was 14.01 ± 2.57 years. The majority (64.8%) of the girls were Hindu by religion and belonged to a nuclear family (53.6%). 45.2 % were educated up to high school level. Most of the girls belonged to socioeconomic class IV (46.0%). The prevalence of anemia in this study was found to be 65.7%. The prevalence of mild and moderate anemia among study participants was 32.6 and 29.8%, respectively. A statistically significant association was found between the prevalence of anemia with age group, educational status of both father and mother, and status of attainment of menarche (p<0.05). Conclusion and Recommendation: The prevalence of anemia among adolescent girls was very high; therefore, attempts must be made to sensitize adolescents and their parents through health and nutrition education, information, education, and communication (IEC), and appropriate behavioral change communication (BCC) activities.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDivision of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Population Health, St John’s Research Institute, St John’s Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Telengana, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.citationNair A, Doibale MK. . Prevalence of Anemia among Adolescent Girls in Rural Area of a District of Maharashtra. Indian Journal of Community Health. 2023 Mar; 35(1): 21 – 26en_US
dc.identifier.issn0971-7587
dc.identifier.issn2248-9509
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/222036
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherMRI Publication Pvt. Ltd.en_US
dc.relation.issuenumber1en_US
dc.relation.volume35en_US
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2023.v35i01.005en_US
dc.subjectAdolescenten_US
dc.subjectFemaleen_US
dc.subjectPrevalenceen_US
dc.subjectNuclear Familyen_US
dc.subjectCross-Sectional Studiesen_US
dc.subjectMenarche Anemiaen_US
dc.subjectHemoglobinsen_US
dc.subjectParents Surveys and Questionnairesen_US
dc.subjectReligion Schoolsen_US
dc.subjectSoftwareen_US
dc.subjectFathersen_US
dc.titlePrevalence of Anemia among Adolescent Girls in Rural Area of a District of Maharashtraen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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