Diet and nutritional status of rural adolescents in India

To study the current diet and nutritional status of rural adolescents in India. Cross-sectional study with household as the unit of randomization. National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau collected information in the rural areas of the nine States. In each State, 120 villages were selected from eight di...

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Published in:European journal of clinical nutrition 2002-11, Vol.56 (11), p.1119-1125
Main Authors: VENKAIAH, K, DAMAYANTI, K, NAYAK, M. U, VIJAYARAGHAVAN, K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Age
Agriculture
Anthropometry
Biological and medical sciences
Body Height
Body Mass Index
Body size
Body Weight
Child
Children & youth
Clinical nutrition
Cluster Analysis
Cross-Sectional Studies
Diet
Diet Surveys
Economics
Female
Food intake
Girls
Households
Humans
Income
India - epidemiology
Male
Malnutrition
Marital Status
Marriage
Medical sciences
Mental Recall
Metabolic diseases
Micronutrients
Micronutrients - administration & dosage
Micronutrients - deficiency
Nutrient deficiency
Nutrients
Nutrition
Nutrition Disorders - epidemiology
Nutrition monitoring
Nutrition Policy
Nutritional Status
Other nutritional diseases (malnutrition, nutritional and vitamin deficiencies...)
Riboflavin
Rural areas
Rural Health
Sex Factors
Socioeconomic Factors
Socioeconomics
Teenagers
Undernutrition
Underweight
Villages
Vitamin A
Weight
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Summary:To study the current diet and nutritional status of rural adolescents in India. Cross-sectional study with household as the unit of randomization. National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau collected information in the rural areas of the nine States. In each State, 120 villages were selected from eight districts. From each of the selected villages, 20 households (HHs) were selected from five clusters. The information on socio-demographic profile was collected in all the 20 HHs, while anthropometric data such as weight, height and clinical signs of nutritional deficiency was collected on all the available adolescents in the selected households. In every fourth sampled household, ie five HHs, dietary information on all the members was collected using 24 h dietary recall. The outcome measures for nutritional status were proportion of underweight (
ISSN:0954-3007
1476-5640
DOI:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601457