An observational study on Nutritional status of children in Government and Private schools of Madhya Pradesh.

Dr. Renu Waghmare; Dr.N.Pragathi Kumar

Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

An observational study on Nutritional status of children in Government and Private schools of Madhya Pradesh.

Dr. Renu Waghmare, Dr. N. Pragathi Kumar

Abstract :

Introduction: Growth factor and hormonal growth spurt are additive factor along with availability of food and type of food, which is major cause hiding the genetic factors. Various multi–centric studies were conducted to develop the growth charts,few of them were extremely appreciating still faced many controversies one of them being differences in urban and rural grooming of children, featuring urgent requirement of growth charts for every nation.

Objectives:

1.To find average height, weight and mid arm circumference of study sample

2.To compare the height, weight, mid arm circumference and BMI in study sample of government and private school.

Materials and methods: the study is a cross sectional study, in which students of (age 11– 18 years) class VI – X of government school (n= 104) and private school (n=151) was taken for assessing height, weight and mid arm circumference. BMI was calculated from the data.Data was entered on MS Excel sheets and unpaired ‘t’ test was applied.

Result: Unpaired t test results revealed no significant difference in the anthropometric indices, except for in 9^th standard where significant difference was found in height, weight, MAC and BMI, also in MAC of 8^th standard, this could be by chance that the difference was found to be significant as no significant difference was found in the students of tenth standard.

Conclusion: There is an urgent need for reference growth charts formation from both urban and rural sectors of India on a mass scale, this data then can be generalized to whole nation and contribute to the making of Indian national growth charts.