Untitled Document

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Year : 2019  |  Volume : 2 |  Issue : 2 |  Page : 11-14 |  DOI : https://doi.org/10.46319/RJMAHS.2019.v02i02.003

 
Study of Anemia amongst school going Adolescent girls in rural Tumkur

Mohan CR1, GK Cheluve Gowda2, BR Chandrika3, Anupama D4*
1 MOH, PHC Siriwara, Tumakuru, 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine Sri Siddhartha Medical College & Research Centre, SSAHE, Agalakote, Tumakuru, 3 District Health & Family Welfare Officer, Tumakuru, 4Professor, Department of Anatomy Sri Siddhartha Medical College & Research Centre, SSAHE, Agalakote, Tumakuru

*Corresponding author:
Dr Anupama D, Professor, Dept of Anatomy, Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Tumkur.
E-mail: dranupama7373@gmail.com

Abstract
Introduction: Anemia is defined as decrease in the total number of red blood cells (RBCs) or hemoglobin in the blood, or a lowered ability of the blood to carry oxygen. Anemia is one of the important health problems in both developing and undeveloped countries. Adolescent girls constitute 1/5 of the female population in the world and more than 60% in the adolescent population of India. Occurence of Anemia is an important health Indicator which is more commonly seen in girls from low socioeconomic status. Aim & objectives: To determine Anemia amongst adolescent school girls and to assess the factors influencing Anemia. Material and methods: A cross sectional study was done among 106 all adolescent school girls in rural areas. A detailed personal and family history was obtained which included socioeconomic levels, educational qualification of parents and menstrual details of the participant. Girls with hemoglobin concentration less than 11g/dl are termed as anemic and then they were grouped into 3 mild, moderate and severe based on WHO Guidelines following collection of peripheral blood sample and hemoglobin estimation by Sahli's method. Results: Anemia was found to be 74.52% which is high for adolescent girl population. Conclusion: Regular screening for Anemia along with thrust on extending the nutritional supplementation and enhancing the Iron Folic acid supplementation to all adolescent girls with proper health education should be included.

Keywords: Anemia, adolescent, school going girls.


E-ISSN : 2582-080X |


Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0)


Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA


An official peer reviewed publication of
Sri Siddhartha Medical College & Research Centre
Constituent College of Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education
(Deemed to be University u/s 3 of UGC Act, 1956)
Accredited 'A' Grade by NAAC
Tumakuru, Karnataka, India. 572107


Research Journal of Medical and Allied Health Sciences is a medium for the advancement of scientific knowledge in all the branches of Medicine and Allied Sciences and publication of scientific research in these fields. The scope of the journal covers basic medical sciences, medicine and allied specialities, surgery and allied specialities, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, biotechnology, public health and other branches of the allied health sciences. This journal is indexed with Advanced Science Index(ASI), National Science Library and Open J Gate.