Traditional food consumption and nutritional status of Dalit mothers in rural Andhra Pradesh, South India

Objectives: To describe prevalence of malnutrition and their correlates of nutrient and traditional food consumption in rural Dalit mothers. Design: In a cross-sectional study, we used socio-cultural questionnaires, anthropometric measurements and clinical eye examinations during the rainy season in...

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Published in:European journal of clinical nutrition 2006-11, Vol.60 (11), p.1277-1283
Main Authors: Schmid, M.A, Egeland, G.M, Salomeyesudas, B, Satheesh, P.V, Kuhnlein, H.V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Animal-based foods
anthropometric measurements
Anthropometry
Biological and medical sciences
Body mass index
Body measurements
Body size
body weight
Carbohydrates
Children
clinical examination
Clinical Nutrition
Cross-Sectional Studies
cultural differences
Dalit
Developing countries
Diet
diet recall
Educational Status
Energy
Energy Intake
Epidemiology
Eye examinations
eyes
Fatigue
Feeding Behavior
Female
Food
Food consumption
food frequency questionnaires
food intake
Food sources
Humans
India
Indian caste system
Internal Medicine
LDCs
literacy
low income households
Malnutrition
Malnutrition - epidemiology
Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Medical sciences
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental Recall
Metabolic Diseases
Mothers
Multivariate Analysis
Nutrient deficiency
Nutrients
Nutrition
Nutrition research
Nutritional Status
original-article
Parity
Pregnancy
Public Health
Questionnaires
Rainy season
Research facilities
Retinene
Risk assessment
Risk Factors
Rural areas
rural health
Rural Population
Sanitation
Seasons
social barriers
socioeconomic status
Sorghum
Summer
Surveys and Questionnaires
Thinness - epidemiology
Traditional foods
Vegetables
villages
Vitamin A
Vitamin A Deficiency - epidemiology
Vitamin deficiency
wet season
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Summary:Objectives: To describe prevalence of malnutrition and their correlates of nutrient and traditional food consumption in rural Dalit mothers. Design: In a cross-sectional study, we used socio-cultural questionnaires, anthropometric measurements and clinical eye examinations during the rainy season in 2003. Food frequency questionnaires and 24-h recalls were conducted during both summer and rainy seasons. Setting: Dalit mothers with young children were recruited from 37 villages in the Medak District of rural Andhra Pradesh, India. Subjects: Dalit mothers (n=220) participated. Results: The prevalence of chronic energy-deficient (CED) mothers (body mass index
ISSN:0954-3007
1476-5640
DOI:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602449