A Study on Assessment of Severity of Anaemia Among Urban and Rural Children of Belagavi, Karnataka
Keywords:
Assess, severity, anaemia, urban, rural, BelagaviAbstract
Introduction: Anemia is the most prevalent worldwide nutritional problem, mainly by iron deficiency. Iron deficiency anemia leads to weakness, poor physical growth, and a compromised immune system, decreasing the capacity to fight infections and thereby increasing morbidity and is also found to impair cognitive performance in a child.
Objective: To assess the severity of anaemia among urban and rural children of Belagavi
Methodology: Government aided schools from Vantamuri PHC and Ramnagar UHC were selected for the study. Probability proportionate to the size sampling technique was used to select sample from each school. Students were selected from each class by simple random sampling. Hemoglobin estimation was done by using Sahli’s Acid Hematin method.
Results: Prevalence of anaemia among school children in Belagavi was found to be 47.9%. A high prevalence of 57% was seen among girls and 40.5% of the boys were anaemic. Prevalence was more in rural area i.e. 52.7% compared to that of urban i.e. 43%. Mild anaemia was found to be more prevalent in both urban and rural children i.e. 28.7% and 29.7% respectively.
Conclusion: The urban and rural areas in our study fall in to communities of severe public health significance (prevalence >40%). There was a higher prevalence of mild anemia as compared to moderate and severe anemia.
References
Shah BK, Gupta P. Weekly vs Daily Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation in Adolescent Nepalese Girls. Archieves of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Journal 2002; 156:131-5.
Kaur S, Deshmukh PR, Garg BS. Epidemiological Corre-lates of Nutritional Anemia in Adolescent Girls of Rural Wardha. Indian Journal of Community Medicine 2006; 31:255-8.
Nayar PD, Mehta R, Gupta P, Ghai OP. Textbook of preventive and social medicine,2nd ed. New Delhi: CBS Publishers and Distributors; 2007.p.428-37.
The state of the world’s children 2011 – Adolescence an age of opportunity. UNICEF .Available from www.unicef.org. Accessed 10th October 2012.
Lal S, Pankaj A. Textbook of community medicine,1st ed. New Delhi: CBS Publishers and Distributors; 2007.p.166-8.
Suneetha Mittal .12 by 12 Initiatives. Implementation Strategies. GOI, WHO, UNICEF and FOGSI collabora-tion. July 2007:16.
Program for Appropriate Technology. Anemia Detec-tion Method in Low Resource Setting: A Manual for Health Workers, Path, OMNI, USAID, Seattle, Wash-ington, USA 1997.
DeMaeyer EM, Dallman P, Gurney JM, Hallberg L, Sood SK, Srikantia SG. Preventing and controlling iron defi-ciency anaemia through primary health care. Geneva: World Health Organization; 1989. p. 8-9.
WHO. Haemoglobin concentrations for the diagnosis of anaemia and assessment of severity. Vitamin and Min-eral Nutrition Information System. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2011 (WHO/NMH/NHD/MNM/11.1) (http://www.who.int/vmnis/indicators/ haemoglo-bin.pdf,accessed[1/1/2014]).
Basu S, Basu S, Hazarika R, Parmar V. Prevalence of anemia among school going adolescents of Chandigarh. Indian Journal of Pediatrics 2005; 42: 593-597.
T Jain, H Chopra, Y Mohan, S Rao. Prevalence of ane-mia and its relation to socio-demographic factors: cross-sectional study among adolescent boys in urban Meerut, India. Journal of Biology and Medicine 2011; 3 (5): 01-05.
Gupta D, Pant Bhawana, Kamari Ranjeeta, Gupta Monika. Screen out anaemia among adolescents boys as well! National Journal of community medicine 2013; 4(1):20-25.
T Premalatha , S Valarmathi, S Parameshwari, S S Jas-mine, S Kalpana. Prevalence of Anemia and its Associ-ated Factors among Adolescent School Girls in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA. Epidemiology Open Access Jour-nal 2012; 2(2):1-4.
S M Siddharam, G M Venketesh, H L Thejeshwari. A study of Anaemia among adolescent girls in rural area of Hassan district, Karnataka, south India. Internation-al Journal of Biological and Medical Research 2011; 2(4): 922-944
N. Saluja, S. Garg, H. C hopra, S. Bajpai: Socio-Demographic Factors Affecting Anemia In School Chil-dren In Urban Area Of Meerut, India. The Internet Jour-nal of Preventive Medicine. 2011; 1(1):1-6.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The authors retain the copyright of their article, with first publication rights granted to Medsci Publications.
