Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ225516

To Assess the Nutritional Status of Rural Adolescent Girls with Residential Facilities Based on BMI Level

Authors(2) :-Nandita Bharti, Archana Chakravarty

The present study was carried out to assess the Nutritional status of students of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya in Chandauli District of Uttar Pradesh. A Community based Cross-Sectional study with 277 adolescent girls selected from Schools. Nutritional status assessed by the help of Anthropometric measurement including weight, Height and BMI. It was found that 84.1% of respondents had normal BMI (≥-2 to ≤+ 1SD), whereas 10.8% underweight and remaining only 5.1% were falling in overweight BMI category. It was also observed that the mean intake of calorie, protein, fat and carbohydrate were found greater among overweight student, And also observed that mean intake of caloric (1930.80kcal), protein (47.08gm) fat (33.77gm) and carbohydrate (359.24gm) was found to be greater among overweight students in comparison to the underweight while mean intake of calcium and iron is found in decreasing order with increase of BMI. But on the basis of this study was found to be good nutritional status of girls of KGBV.

Authors and Affiliations

Nandita Bharti
Research Scholar, Department of Home science (Food and Nutrition), MMV, BHU, Varanasi, India
Archana Chakravarty
Retired Professor& Ex-head, Department of Home science (Food and Nutrition), MMV, BHU, Varanasi, India

Nutritional status, BMI, Adolescent, KGBV, Yamane's formula

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 5 | Issue 5 | September-October 2022
Date of Publication : 2022-10-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 71-77
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ225516
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

Cite This Article :

Nandita Bharti, Archana Chakravarty, "To Assess the Nutritional Status of Rural Adolescent Girls with Residential Facilities Based on BMI Level", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 5, Issue 5, pp.71-77, September-October.2022
URL : https://shisrrj.com/SHISRRJ225516

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