Konwar Pompy, Vyas Navya, Hossain Shaikh Shah, Gore Manisha N, Choudhury Manisha
Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Faculty of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Indian J Community Med. 2019 Jul-Sep;44(3):238-242. doi: 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_357_18.
Any deficiency or inadequate dietary pattern can lead to poor nutrition which can further influence both growth and development throughout from infancy to adolescence. Since adolescents represent the next generation of parents, it is important to monitor their nutritional status at this crucial stage. Thus, this study aimed to explore the factors associated with nutritional status among adolescent girls belonging to these tea gardens.
The objective of this community-based cross-sectional study was to assess the nutritional status of adolescent girls belonging to the tea garden community and the association of the sociodemographic factors with it.
Anthropometric measurement was taken among adolescent girls in the tea estates of Nazira subdivision of Sivasagar district, Assam. The pattern of dietary intake among adolescents was also studied. The statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 15.
The prevalence of thinness and stunting across 265 adolescent girls was 49.4% and 50.6%, respectively. Calorie and protein deficits were found to be 76.60% and 65%, respectively. Majority of the respondents, i.e., 66.80% of the participants, had a poor intake of essential food constituents. Moreover, 76.21% of the respondents were anemic. The association of different sociodemographic factors with thinness, inadequate protein intake, and anemia were found during the study.
Thinness and stunting along with protein-energy malnutrition and inadequate intake of important food groups were prevalent in adolescent tea community girls. Overall, the public health burden of malnutrition is still a persisting health problem in the tea gardens of Assam.
任何饮食模式的不足或不充分都会导致营养不良，进而影响从婴儿期到青春期的生长发育。由于青少年是下一代父母，在这个关键阶段监测他们的营养状况很重要。因此，本研究旨在探讨这些茶园中青春期女孩营养状况的相关因素。
这项基于社区的横断面研究的目的是评估茶园社区青春期女孩的营养状况以及社会人口学因素与营养状况的关联。
对阿萨姆邦锡瓦萨加尔区纳齐拉分区茶园中的青春期女孩进行人体测量。还研究了青少年的饮食摄入模式。使用SPSS 15版进行统计分析。
265名青春期女孩中消瘦和发育迟缓的患病率分别为49.4%和50.6%。发现热量和蛋白质缺乏率分别为76.60%和65%。大多数受访者，即66.80%的参与者，必需食物成分摄入不足。此外，76.21%的受访者贫血。在研究期间发现了不同社会人口学因素与消瘦、蛋白质摄入不足和贫血之间的关联。
青春期茶园社区女孩中消瘦、发育迟缓以及蛋白质能量营养不良和重要食物组摄入不足的情况普遍存在。总体而言，营养不良的公共卫生负担在阿萨姆邦的茶园中仍然是一个持续存在的健康问题。
