The Nutritional Status of the Students in Samakompayabanthai SchoolIn Songkwae District, Nan Province

Abstract

The aim of this descriptive research was to study the nutrition status of the students in Samakom Payabanthai School. The populations were 536 students who were studying in year 1- year 6, aged between 7 and 17 years old during the school year 2013 and 2014. The instruments included student health record book, the total result of weight, and height measurement record. The nutritional status was calculated by body weight by age, height by age, and weight by height according to the standard score of Bureau of Nutrition, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, in 2012. The data was analyzed by using frequency and percentage.

The results showed that, between 2013 and 2014, the students have a weight less than the standard which are 11.42 and 8.79 percent respectively, the students have a height less than the standard which are 15.59 and 17.58 percent respectively, the percentage of overweight are 1.14 and 1.47 respectively, and the percentage of skinny body are 3.42 and 1.10, respectively. The results showed that the malnutrition status problems are found in both primary school and secondary school students. Therefore, the multidisciplinary team should cooperate to solve the problems of malnutrition both underweight and overweight students.