Nutritional Profile of Rural School Children.
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2016-01
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Background: Children are not given an opportunity for better future due to lack of understanding of their nutritional and
emotional needs, which affects not only the individual child’s health but also nation’s economic progress. Methods: A
school based cross sectional study was conducted among primary school children in 6-14 years of age located in
AJIMS field practice area pane-Mangalore. Results: The pilot study result showed 45 % morbidity. With this assumption
using formula n= 4pq/d2 a sample size of 488 was calculated, thus a total of 500 students were included in the study.
The key findings of our study are 53.4% were girls, and 53.4% of children belonged to Muslim community Majority of
families belong to socio-economic class II 40.4%. Conclusion: School age is a critical time in the development of
human beings and the School setting provides a strategic point of entry for improving child health, self-esteem, life skills
and behaviour. Malnutrition is a condition of multifactor deprivation.
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Children, Health Status, Nutritional Status, Anaemia
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Motakpalli Kaviraj, Indupalli Amrutha Swati, Tenglikar Pallavi V, Jamadar Deepak. Nutritional Profile of Rural School Children. Annals of International Medical and Dental Research. 2016 Jan-Feb; 2(1): 200-203.