Growth and Nutritional Status of School Age Children (6-14 Years) of Tea Garden Worker of Assam

Nutritional Status of Children in Rural setting.

“…Ijarotimi et al at Akure 22 ascribed the disparity between the male and female child that males are better fed than their female siblings, the "lions share" of the meat/fish will always go to the males. Collectively prevalence of stunting from our study was19.2%, result was low compared to studies from Akure Lagos, andMarkurdi 5,22,23 however slightly higher than what was obtained at Abeokuta were prevalence was 16.7% 20 . Stunting was more prevalent among the males 56.7% than their female counterparts 43.3%, this is consistent with other works 15,19,22,24, ,but differ from the other findings among school children which revealed that more girls had poorer health or were wasted and stunted than the boys 25 .…”

Sociodemographic Correlates of Malnutrition Among School Aged Children in an Urban Slum in India: A Cross Sectional Study

“…In the present study, no statistically significant difference was seen in the prevalence of underweight in children in relation to age which was 50.3% and 46.1% in 5-9 years and 10-14 years respectively (P>0.1) which is similar to the findings of Medhi et al (2006) 13 1 found the prevalence of underweight in children, higher in younger age group in contrast to Mian et al (2002) 14 reporting the prevalence of malnutrition higher among older children than younger ones. In the present study the prevalence of overweight and obesity in 5-9 years and 10-14 years age group was found to be 19.7% and 8.3% respectively (P<0.001) which is in contrast to the findings of Kumari (2005) 15 who reported that the mean weight of the children increased with age in both the sexes.…”

Nutritional Status of School Going Children (6-15 Years) in a Semi-Urban Area of Cachar District, Assam

“…Stunting was significantly more pronounced in higher age group, 3.18 times in the age group of 12-15 years compared to children in their age group of 6-9 years. The children of fathers working as unskilled workers were found 2.37 times more at risk to become stunted [ [12,13,14,9,15] However, unlike the present findings studies done in other parts of the country showed that boys were heavier and taller than girls till the age of 10 years. From the age of 11 onwards, the mean height and weight of girls exceeded that of boys and similarly in another study in the age group of 13-14 years.…”

“…[25] However, in a study in Assam higher prevalence of thinness was found to be 53.9% among the tea garden workers. [13] Association of Height for Age with Other Sociodemographic Variables From table-3, it is observed that boys were found to be more stunted than girls but the difference was not significant. In contrast to this in another study significant difference was observed in prevalence among the boy than in girls.…”