Anemia among adolescent girls in Shimla hills of north India: Does BMI and onset of menarche have a role?

Gupta, Anmol; Parashar, Anupam; Thakur, Anita; Sharma, Deepak

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“…Our findings are consistent with the studies done by Rajaratnam J et al, Sharda S et al, Goyle A, Prakash S and Chaudhary SM et al 7,[13][14][15] Gupta A, Paraskar A et al conducted study in1596 adolescent girls of age (10-19 years). 16 It was seen that among the anaemic adolescent girls, 77.3% had mild anaemia, 21.9% had moderate anaemia, and 0.9% had severe anaemia. Present study differs from the study done by Rawat CMS et al who reported 19.0 % mild, 14.1% moderate and 1.4% severe anaemia in adolescent girls.…”

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Study of adherence and effect of iron and folic acid supplement on haemoglobin level among adolescent girls in rural area

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Janbade

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Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…The National Family Health Survey-3 (NFHS-3) data suggests that anaemia among adolescent girls (15)(16)(17)(18)(19) years) is 56 percent. 1 Sample size (n) was calculated with the help of formula as below.…”

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Study of adherence and effect of iron and folic acid supplement on haemoglobin level among adolescent girls in rural area

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Janbade

Lone³

et al. 2016

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“…The findings of the study are consistent with the several previous studies. 16,28,29 While some earlier studies indicated that the body mass index was associated with anaemia and reported that the prevalence was high in underweight girls. 11,30 This study found that the prevalence of anaemia was slightly high in late adolescents as compared to in the early adolescent's girls which also observed in previous studies that age of the adolescent girls shows a significant relation with the prevalence of anaemia, it may be attributed to started of menarche time.…”

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“…11,30 This study found that the prevalence of anaemia was slightly high in late adolescents as compared to in the early adolescent's girls which also observed in previous studies that age of the adolescent girls shows a significant relation with the prevalence of anaemia, it may be attributed to started of menarche time. 28,31 However, some studies also indicated that there is no significant association of age of adolescent girls and anaemia. [32][33][34] On multiple regressions analysis shows that the age of adolescent, education of adolescent, religion, caste, income strata and region of residence is found to be associated with anaemia in adolescent girls which indicated in several earlier studies.…”

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Rural-urban disparities in prevalence of anemia among adolescent girls in India

Yadav

Srinadh

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Anaemia continues to be a major public health problem at all ages worldwide. Today, every fifth person in India is an adolescent (Census, 2011). Anaemia effects adolescent girls critically by decreasing their capacity to do physical work, affects their growth as a result they are not well prepared for upcoming pregnancy and motherhood challenge. NFHS-3 reports indicated wide rural-urban disparity in prevalence of anaemia. The present study aims to explore rural-urban disparity in prevalence of anaemia and to study the factor associated with anaemia among adolescent girls in India. Methods: District levels household survey (DLHS-4, 2012-13) was used for the present study. The outcome variables included in the study was anaemia. Bivariate analyses including chi square tests were applied to determine the prevalence of anaemia and logistic regression models to understand the determinants of anaemia. The whole analysis was performed using STATA version 13.0 to take into account the survey design (i.e. sampling weights with clustering and strata), QGIS, and R CRAN. Results: The prevalence of anaemia was observed high in urban (65.3%) as compared to rural (57.3%). However, the prevalence of severe anaemia was high in rural area as compared to urban area. The mean hemoglobin level of the study population was 10.4±2.22. Prevalence of anaemia varies across key selected individual, household and community characteristics of adolescent girls. Finding of multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that anemia has a strong relation with age, education, family size, religion, caste, economic status, sanitation facility and place of residence of adolescents. Conclusions: This study concludes that the prevalence of anaemia is a significant problem of adolescent girls in India. The study also proved that anemia is significantly associated with age, education, income strata and place of residence.

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“…2 They are four time risk of developing anemia compared to developed countries In India by 1970 3 the government of India has launched a national nutritional programme for anemia i.e anemia prophylaxis program were it was targeted more for the vulnerable eligible couples of pregnant mothers and many agencies came forward for this program for strengthening the strategies they wanted to get adopted for control of anemia in rural area but there was least contribution in the urban school children according to the program.Though the urban government school children comes under the preview of urban primary care region, on every Thursdays there will be an school health activities but unfortunately there is a lack of services to rectify and halt the progress of disorder among these children. 4 Adolescent school children are exposed to multiple dietary factors; they are eating most commonly available foods like rice porridge, snacks, locally available sweets from the neighboring shops and finally they land up in multiple factors of having worm infestations and there by leading to anemia. There are multiple factors can be predicted for the occurrence of the disease and clinical manifestation.…”

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Prevalence of anemia and its associated risk factors among urban school children of Chennai/ Tamilnadu

2020

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Introduction: Anemia is one of the major public health problems among adolescence age group. In modern society intake of locally available of junk foods is common among different age groups which can lead up to other non communicable disorders in adults. On the other hand there is lot of low socioeconomic population living in urban area and their children are studying in urban schools that are exposed to commonly available neighboring foods around the school premises. These children when they don't have better performance in their academic career they become school dropouts and hunt for daily jobs for their survival. This study was done to find out the prevalence of clinical manifestation of anemia and associated factors among urban school children. Materials and Methods: a cross sectional study design done on urban school children in saligramam south Chennai from 2015-2017. Results: Prevalence of anemia was found to be 53.4% (95% CI 48.4-58.3). Males students were found to more 62.8% compared to female students 37.2%. In terms of grading of anemia mild 130(33.3%) moderate 64(16.4%) and severe 14(3.6%) respectively and remaining were found to be normal. In this study all student in the government schools were from low socio economic background. a higher prevalence of anemia among the students who had open air defecation, not wearing regular foot wares and not maintaining regular hand washing and who have a habit of taking regular food from the locally available shops and overweight individuals. On clinical examination of the study participants of 390 individuals 204(52.3) revealed pallor of conjunctiva, tongue and nail bed. Most of the children had 254 (65.1) individuals had either of the clinical manifestation of anemia. Conclusion: A higher prevalence of anemia has been found in this study among school children and their associated factors like open air defecation, regular frequent intake of outside foods and improper hand washing and underweight hence there should be periodic health examination and appropriate health education and health awareness has to sensitized to these individuals.

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Anemia among adolescent girls in Shimla hills of north India: Does BMI and onset of menarche have a role?

Abstract: We observed a low prevalence of anemia among adolescent girls. We recommend that adolescents be screened periodically for anemia and multi-sectoral, community-based approach be adopted to combat this serious public health issue.

Cited by 25 publications

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Study of adherence and effect of iron and folic acid supplement on haemoglobin level among adolescent girls in rural area

Study of adherence and effect of iron and folic acid supplement on haemoglobin level among adolescent girls in rural area

Rural-urban disparities in prevalence of anemia among adolescent girls in India

Prevalence of anemia and its associated risk factors among urban school children of Chennai/ Tamilnadu

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