The Impact of Nutrition Education and Dietary Counselling on Anthropometric Measurements of Adolescent Girls belonging to different Socio-economic Backgrounds, Bihar

Author: Debjani Das and Abhijit Das

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Abstract

Several recent studies have reported that adolescent girls from every corner of India particularly from rural areas had poor health status and the roots of this problem was found that most of the adolescents were not aware about proper dietary pattern and also lack of nutritional knowledge. In Bihar, adolescent girls are suffering from serious health problem due to socio economic conditions, nutrition and gender discrimination. According to National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (2003), in the rural area more than 40-50 per cent girls have been reported to be undernourished. The study was carried out on 100 adolescent girls belonging to 15-19 years age group and categorized them into three socio-economic groups i.e. lower class, middle class and upper class. Their pre and post anthropometric measurements were taken in order to find out the impact of education intervention and counselling on their health status. It was noticed that most of the girls from lower class background were malnourished as compared to middle class and upper class family but after exposure of nutrition intervention and dietary counselling it was slightly decreased the range of malnourished and most of the girls were obtained normal BMI. It was showed that after nutrition intervention and dietary counselling, positive changes were showed in every income group (Lower, middle and upper class) of adolescent girls.

Keywords

Adolescent girls, anthropometric measurement, socio-economic background, nutrition intervention, dietary counselling

Conclusion

It can be concluded that respondents those were belonging to lower class their weight and BMI was less as compared to middle class and upper class. But it was showed that after nutrition intervention and dietary counselling, weight and BMI of respondents of each socio-economic group was slightly increased. But heights of respondents were remaining unchanged. Positive changes were showed in every income group of adolescent girls.

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How to cite this article

Debjani Das and Abhijit Das (2023). The Impact of Nutrition Education and Dietary Counselling on Anthropometric Measurements of Adolescent Girls Belonging to different Socio-economic Backgrounds, Bihar. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(1): 145-150.