A study to find out the prevalence of anemia among school going adolescent girls in a selected rural community of Guwahati, Assam.

Ms. Susmita Sinha; Mrs. Nirmali Gogoi; Mrs. Anamika Bhuayan

Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2018

A study to find out the prevalence of anemia among school going adolescent girls in a selected rural community of Guwahati, Assam.

Ms. Susmita Sinha, Mrs. Nirmali Gogoi, Mrs. Anamika Bhuayan

Abstract :

Adolescence is a transitional age of physical and psychological human development generally between puberty and legal adulthood. Approximately twenty percent of the world’s population is adolescents and majority of them live in developing countries. In India the prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls is 90%. So the present study aimed to find out the prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls through hemoglobin testing.

Methods: A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. In this study 110 adolescent girls (11–19 years) studying in Swahid Kushal Konwar High School, Panikhaiti, Guwahati, Assam were selected by using probability simple random sampling technique. The tool used for the research study was demographic Performa and Hemoglobin test by using Cyanmeth hemoglobin test method.

Results: The result showed that 89.1 % adolescent girls were anaemic .Out of which majority 50% of them were having moderate anaemia, 39.80 % were having mild anaemia and 10.20% were having severe anaemia. The mean value of hemoglobin was 9.75± ±1.99. Chi– square result showed that prevalence of anaemia was significant with source of health related information and duration of menstrual bleeding at (P< 0.05).

Conclusion: On the basis of the findings the researcher concluded that prevalence of anaemia is high among adolescent girls and anaemia is associated with source of health related information and duration of menstrual bleeding.