Prevalence of daily breakfast intake, iron deficiency anaemia and awareness of being anaemic among Saudi school students

Iron deficiency anaemia is one of most prevalent nutritional disorders worldwide. It is known to affect the health and cognitive ability of children and adolescents. Studies in Saudi Arabia concentrate only on the population of young children and pregnant females or girls. Studies on the whole schoo...

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Published in:International journal of food sciences and nutrition 2002-11, Vol.53 (6), p.519-528
Main Authors: Abalkhail, Bahaa, Shawky, Sherine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Anemia
Anemia, Iron-Deficiency - epidemiology
Anemias. Hemoglobinopathies
Awareness
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Diseases of red blood cells
Educational Status
Female
Food science
Hematologic and hematopoietic diseases
Hemoglobins - analysis
Human physiology applied to population studies and life conditions. Human ecophysiology
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Menarche
Nutrition
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Nutritional survey. Food supply and nutritional requirement
Prevalence
Saudi Arabia - epidemiology
Sex Factors
Socioeconomic Factors
Students
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Summary:Iron deficiency anaemia is one of most prevalent nutritional disorders worldwide. It is known to affect the health and cognitive ability of children and adolescents. Studies in Saudi Arabia concentrate only on the population of young children and pregnant females or girls. Studies on the whole school student population is lacking. The objectives of this study were to identify the nutritional habits and the prevalence of anaemia among school students in Jeddah, as well as to recognize the students' awareness of their anaemic nutritional status. Data were collected from a sample of Saudi school children in Jeddah City from 42 boys' and 42 girls' schools during the month of April 2000. Data collection was done by an in-person interview to collect socio-demographic factors, nutritional habits, weight and height. Haemoglobin was measured in a sample of 800 students selected at random from both genders and different age groups. Anaemia was defined according to the new WHO cut-off levels for haemoglobin as: blood haemoglobin
ISSN:0963-7486
1465-3478
DOI:10.1080/09637480220164370