Mukherjee R, Chaturvedi S, Bhalwar R
Officer Commanding, 136 SHO(L), 903136, C/o 56 APO.
Ex-Associate Professor, Armed Forces, Medical College, Pune 411040.
Med J Armed Forces India. 2008 Jul;64(3):227-31. doi: 10.1016/S0377-1237(08)80099-8. Epub 2011 Jul 21.
A cross sectional study was carried out to determine the nutritional status of school children in Army School, Pune.
Anthropometric survey of 760 school children was carried out and compared against the NCHS/WHO reference standards to determine their nutritional status. Associations of nutritional status with socio-economic status, education status of parents, mothers working status and family size were determined.
The prevalence of stunting was 13.81%, wasting 6.71% and under nutrition 9.87%. Mothers' educational level, wasting, socio economic status and family size were significantly associated with the nutritional status of the child.
Maternal educational status, socio-economic status and family size are important determinants of nutritional status of school children.
开展了一项横断面研究,以确定浦那陆军学校学童的营养状况。
对760名学童进行了人体测量调查,并与美国国家卫生统计中心/世界卫生组织的参考标准进行比较,以确定他们的营养状况。确定了营养状况与社会经济地位、父母教育程度、母亲工作状况和家庭规模之间的关联。
发育迟缓的患病率为13.81%,消瘦为6.71%,营养不良为9.87%。母亲的教育水平、消瘦、社会经济地位和家庭规模与儿童的营养状况显著相关。
母亲的教育状况、社会经济地位和家庭规模是学童营养状况的重要决定因素。