Nutritional Status of School Going Adolescent Girls in Awash Town, Afar Region, Ethiopia

Nutritional Status of School Going Adolescent Girls in Awash Town, Afar Region, Ethiopia

Background. Adolescence is an essential stage in the human life cycle, a transition period between childhood and adulthood that is characterized by rapid growth spurt in which nutritional requirement is high. Adolescents are risk groups for malnutrition, but they are not part of a target in many int...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of environmental and public health 2020, Vol.2020 (2020), p.1-9, Article 7367139
Hauptverfasser: Kahssay, Molla, Gebre, Abel, Mohamed, Lidia
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adolescence
Adolescents
Age
Age groups
Analysis
Child development
Children
Confidence intervals
Data collection
Developing countries
Diet
Food
Food consumption
Food groups
Girls
LDCs
Life cycles
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Malnutrition
Meals
Nutrition
Nutritional requirements
Nutritional status
Ownership
Population
Public health
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Quality standards
Questionnaires
Regression analysis
Requirements
Risk groups
Sample size
Schools
Science & Technology
Sociodemographics
Software
Statistical analysis
Studies
Teenage girls
Teenagers
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Zusammenfassung:Background. Adolescence is an essential stage in the human life cycle, a transition period between childhood and adulthood that is characterized by rapid growth spurt in which nutritional requirement is high. Adolescents are risk groups for malnutrition, but they are not part of a target in many intervention strategies. Hence, this study was aimed at assessing nutritional status of adolescent girls and its associated factors. Methods. Institutional based cross-sectional study design was employed among randomly selected 348 school going adolescent girls. Data were entered into Epi Info and transported to SPSS version 20 for further analysis. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to identify predicators of nutritional status of adolescent girls at p value
ISSN:1687-9805
1687-9813
DOI:10.1155/2020/7367139