PREVELANCE OF ANEMIA AMONG THE SCHOOL GOING ADOLESCENT GIRLS OF RURAL AREA IN RAIGAD DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA
Keywords:
Anaemia, School children, Chi square testAbstract
Background: Anemia may strike people of any age or in any part of the world, making it a substantial risk to the health of the general population. By a wide margin, the most common kind of anaemia is nutritional anaemia, which may be brought on by a deficiency in either iron, folate, or vitamin B12. Due to the fact that its symptoms are rather modest, iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) often stays undetected or untreated for an extended period of time.
Aim and Objectives: The critical aim and objectives of the study is to understand the prevalence of anaemia among the school going children in rural areas of Maharashtra , also analyse the major causes of anaemia among school going children’s and apprehend the steps to be taken to overcome the issues related to anaemia among the children’s.
Methods and Materials: The study is conducted at rural area of Maharashtra, India, the study was conducted for a period of 3 months, a total of 155 students were selected based on convenience sampling, the data were collected through closed ended questionnaire and results were analysed using SPSS version 18.
Results: The analysis reveals that girl children who does not possess proper diet suffer from anaemia, also it is noted that that the major causes for anaemia is lack of iron rich foods and other related factors. The results shows that nearly 76.13% of the children were diagnosed with anaemia and also 69 of the respondents mentioned that deficiency of iron is the major causes for anaemia. The prevalence of anaemia has significantly decreased because to advancements in dietary practises, educational opportunities, and preventive medical treatment (P> 0.05).
Conclusion: The study reveals that the anaemia is considered to be critical aspect for many health related problems among school children, hence proper diet, frequent medical checkups need to be undertaken in order to overcome the deficiencies and create better society for the future.
References
Elmardi KA, Adam I, Malik EM, Abdelrahim TA, Elhag MS, Ibrahim AA, et al. Prevalence and determinants of anaemia in women of reproductive age in Sudan:Analysis of a cross-sectional household survey. BMC Public Health. 2020;20:1125–36. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Bathla S, Arora S. Prevalence and approaches to manage iron deficiency anemia (IDA) Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2021;7:1–14. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Bellizzi S, Pichierri G, Napodano CM, Salaris P, Fiamma M, Fozza C, et al. Iron deficiency anaemia and low BMI among adolescent girls in India:The transition from 2005 to 2015. Public Health Nutr. 2021;24:1577–82. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Ramzi M, Haghpanah S, Malekmakan L, Cohan N, Baseri A, Alamdari A, et al. Anemia and iron deficiency in adolescent school girls in Kavar urban area, southern Iran. Iran Red Crescent Med J. 2011;13:128–33. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Kapil U, Bhadoria AS. National Iron-plus initiative guidelines for control of iron deficiency anaemia in India, 2013. Natl Med J India. 2014;27:27–9. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Kotecha P, Nirupam S, Karkar P. Adolescent girls'anaemia control programme, Gujarat, India. Indian J Med Res. 2009;130:584–9. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Sarna A, Porwal A, Ramesh S, Agrawal PK, Acharya R, Johnston R, et al. Characterisation of the types of anaemia prevalent among children and adolescents aged 1-19 years in India:A population-based study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2020;4:515–25. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Fernández-Gaxiola AC, De-Regil LM. Intermittent iron supplementation for reducing anaemia and its associated impairments in adolescent and adult menstruating women. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2019;1:CD009218. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Sedlander E, Long MW, Mohanty S, Munjral A, Bingenheimer JB, Yilma H, et al. Moving beyond individual barriers and identifying multi-level strategies to reduce anemia in Odisha India. BMC Public Health. 2020;20:457–72. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Rawat K, Rawat N, Mathur N, Mathur M, Chauhan N, Kakkar R, et al. Prevalence and pattern of anemia in the second and third trimester pregnancy in Western Rajasthan. Int J Res Med Sci. 2016;4:4797–9. [Google Scholar]
Sharma V, Ninama R. Status of anaemia in tribal women of Banswara District, Rajasthan. J Life Sci. 2015;7:15–7. [Google Scholar]
Barmer, Rajasthan, In:Wikipedia. 2021. [Last accessed on 2021 Jul 11]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barmer,_Rajasthan&oldid=1029322545 .
Sharma H, Singh SK, Srivastava S. Socio-economic inequality and spatial heterogeneity in anaemia among children in India:Evidence from NFHS-4 (2015–16) Clin Epidemiology Glob Health. 2020;8:1158–71. [Google Scholar]
Bodat S, Bodat R, Vinjamuri PV, Rathore AR. Prevalence of anemia among school going adolescent girls in rural area of Pune, Maharashtra, India. Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol. 2020;9:1596–603. [Google Scholar]
Kamble BD, Gunjan M, Sumit J, Singh SK, Jha D, Singh S. Prevalence of anaemia among school going adolescent girls attending Test, Treat and Talk (T-3) camp under Anaemia Mukt Bharat in Delhi. J Family Med Prim Care. 2021;10:898–903. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Dhillon PK, Kumar B, Verma HK. Prevalence of anemia in view of socio-demographic and health status of adolescent girls enrolled in government school at border-belt of Indian Punjab. Ecol Food Nutr. 2021;60:198–211. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Re-users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as the original work is properly credited.
