International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences
Volume (2) - Issue (4), 2017 pp 180-184
Title
A study on anemia and anemic related knowledge among the college girls in Aringar Anna Government Arts College, Musiri, Tiruchirappalli District, Tamil Nadu, India
Author
C. Maruthanayagam and R. Mahalakshmi
Abstract
To determine the nutritional knowledge among teenage girls the study was undertaken on 152 college girls’ students of Musiri Taluk, Tiruchirappalli District, Tamil Nadu, India. A questionnaire has been prepared to collect the demographic profile of the subjects, food habits of the subjects and food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was used. Most of the subjects were within the age range of 18-21 yrs, living in nuclear family, having non vegetarian food habits and belong to middle income group. Most of the subjects were having faulty food habits; 60% of subjects eat out once a week followed by 23% subjects eat out twice a week and most of them preferred to eat fast foods and carbonated beverages. Only 25% of the subjects were having good knowledge about anemia. The results show that the nutrition education intervention is required for the teenage girls to create awareness and to disseminate the knowledge related to the prevention and control of anemia.
Keywords
Hemoglobin, Anemia, Food Frequency, Food Habits, Nutritional Knowledge, Nutritional disorder.
Article History
Received on 18/03/2017, Accepted on 01/06/2017, Published on 25/08/2017
