Micronutrient status of female adolescent school dropouts
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Micronutrient status of female adolescent school dropouts.
OBJECTIVES No data exists for nutritional status of female adolescent school dropouts despite one in seven adolescent girls in Sri Lanka being an early school leaver. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status of working and non-working female adolescent school dropouts. METHODS A cross-sectional design was used to recruit 613 female adolescent school dropouts, aged 15-19 year...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ceylon Medical Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2386-1274,0009-0875
DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v57i2.4460