Formerly International Journal of Basic and Applied Agricultural Research

Assessment of knowledge increment on nutrition and health among adolescent girls of Uttarakhand state

PRATIBHA SINGH, PREETI JOSHI, DEEPALI BINWAL, MONIKA PHARTYAL, SUJATA
International Journal of Basic and Applied Agricultural Research, Volume - 12, Issue - 1 ( January-April, 2014)

Published: 2014-04-01

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Abstract


Various studies and nutritional surveys showed that undernutrition is a prevalent problem among school going children and adolescent due to intake of inadequate diet and negligience towards nutritious foods. Adolescence is the period of growth spurt in which overall development takes place and in this period prime importance should be given to nutrition. Nutrition education can be the best way to overcome nutritional related problems through creating nutrition awareness. This study was conducted to assess the nutritional awareness of adolescent girls (12-18 years), to educate them about nutrition and health and to adjudge the impact of nutrition education on the knowledge level of selected adolescent girls. For conducting this study 6 schools were selected from district Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand state. The aim was to provide nutrition education of school going girls and the girls were selected from 7th class to 12th class. Thus a total number of girls were 1889. The mode of education was lecture method with the help of flip chart. Pre and post test was conducted to know the knowledge level. Results showed that there was 41.9 per cent increase in knowledge and the percentage of increase in knowledge was affected by the attendance percent of the students in the class.


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