A DESCRIPTIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY TO ASSESS PREVALENCE OF MAL-NUTRITION IN CHILDREN UNDER FIVE YEARS AGE IN RURAL COMMUNITY BIKANER, RAJASTHAN

Authors

  • Poonam Meena Medical Officer Government Hospital Dausa
  • Satish Meena FNB Fellow, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Apollo Hospital Chennai
  • Ashok Meena Medical Officer Government Hospital Dausa
  • R N Sehra Senior professor, Department of Paeditrics, S M S Medical College Jaipur

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32553/ijmbs.v5i12.2332

Keywords:

Malnutrition, Wasting, Stunting, Underweight, Children

Abstract

Background: Malnutrition among children below five years continues to be one of India major human development challenges. In spite of tremendous economic progress made in the last two to three decades.

Methods: The study was cross-sectional hospital based study. Under five year children with sample size of 500 was taken for study.

Results: All three parameters of malnutrition i.e. wasting, underweight and stunting were more common in males than females. It was found thatthere was very significant and highly significant difference with regard to underweight and stunting respectively between male and female children but no significant gender difference was found for wasting

Conclusions: Majority of under five children were malnourished and malnutrition common in males than females.

Keywords: Malnutrition, Wasting, Stunting, Underweight, Children

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2021-12-01

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Meena , P. ., Meena, S. ., Meena , A. ., & Sehra, R. N. . (2021). A DESCRIPTIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY TO ASSESS PREVALENCE OF MAL-NUTRITION IN CHILDREN UNDER FIVE YEARS AGE IN RURAL COMMUNITY BIKANER, RAJASTHAN. International Journal of Medical and Biomedical Studies, 5(12). https://doi.org/10.32553/ijmbs.v5i12.2332

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Vol. 5 No. 12 (2021)

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