Assessment of Nutritional Status of Teenage Adolescent Girls in Urban Slum of Varanasi

Assessment of nutritional status of adolescent girls in an urban slum area

The term “Adolescence” represents a hyper anabolic phase of growth, mediated by normal factors and characterized by peck velocities of growth (Gopalan, 1989). Adolescents are more vulnerable to malnutrition. The aim of this study is to assess the nutritional status of adolescent girls of an urban slum area of Jaipur. This is a cross sectional study design using multistage random sampling method...

Nutritional status of adolescent girls from an urban slum area in South India.

OBJECTIVE To assess the nutritional status of adolescent girls in a slum community of Urban Health Center, Panangal. METHODS A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out over a period of two months. 223 adolescent girls of age 10-18 years were selected randomly. Data was collected by interviewing the adolescent girls using predesigned, pre tested, semi-structured schedule. Parents ...

Iron nutritional status of adolescent girls from rural area and urban slum.

Iron nutritional status of adolescent girls belonging to an urban slum and rural areas was assessed by measuring serum ferritin levels. Overall anemia was observed in 25% of the girls irrespective of their urban rural residence. A higher percentage of rural girls (37.5%) especially below the age of 12 years showed evidence of anemia. Thereafter, the prevalence was similar in both urban and rura...

Assessment of Nutritional Status of Adolescent College Girls at Rawalpindi

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