A Cross-sectional Study on Nutritional Status and Factors Associated With Malnutrition Among School-Age Children in Hyderabad.
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Malnutrition among children is one of the greatest public health problems in India. School age is the active growing phase of childhood and primary school age is the period of physical growth as well as mental development of the child. The present nutritional status of School age children in India is unsatisfactory. 1) To assess the nutritional status of children between 5-15 years of age. 2) To analyse the factors associated with malnutrition among school-age children. Of the total 384 children, 215 (56%) were boys and 169 (44%) were girls. The risk of malnutrition was significantly higher among children living in joint families, children whose m2others were illiterate and children with working mothers. Stunting was the most frequent anthropometric failure (n=100, 26.04%) followed by wasting (n= 77, 20.05%) and underweight (n=70, 18.23%) respectively.137 were normal (35.68%). Gender disparity was observed in the distribution of malnutrition with boys having higher frequency of stunting, wasting and underweight than girls. Most of the school-age children in our study had poor nutritional status. Interventions such as skill-based nutrition education, fortification of food items, effective infection control, training of public healthcare workers and delivery of integrated programs are recommended.
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