Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

A STUDY ON ANEMIA RELATED KNOWLEDGE AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN A RURAL AREA

Sridevi. P, Junior Sunderesh

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 To determine the nutritional knowledge among the adolescent girls in the study was undertaken 100 adolescent girls in a rural area Ranipet. A questionnaire has been developed to collect the demographic profile of the subjects, food habits of the subject was used. Most of the subjects were within the age range of 14–17 years, living in a nuclear family, having non vegetarian food habits and belong to the middle income group. The mean height of the subjects was 152±8cm and 45±9 kg. 63% of the subjects were normal and 33% subjects were underweight. Most of the subjects were having faulty food habits. Only 35% of the subjects were having good knowledge about anaemia. The results show that the nutrition education intervention is required for the adolescents to create awareness and to disseminate the knowledge related to the prevention and management of anaemia

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SRIDEVI.P, JUNIOR SUNDERESH, A STUDY ON ANEMIA RELATED KNOWLEDGE AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN A RURAL AREA, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-1 | January-2018

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