Situation Analysis on Nutritional Status of Children Under Five Years of Age of Indrapur Vdc, Morang District
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2011-11
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Faculty of Education
Abstract
This study entitled "Situation Analysis on Nutritional Status of Children under Five
Years of Age of Indrapur VDC, Morang District" is based on primary data from ward no.
2 of Indrapur VDC. The main objectives of the study is to find out the relationship
between socio-economic factors and nutritional status, comparing sex wise nutritional
status. The area of study was selected purposively and the ward selection was made by
random sampling. In selecting ward, 25 percent of household were randomly chosen. The
nutritional status was studied from anthropometric measurement and socio-economic
patterns were considered.
Prevalence of malnutrition from Gomez classification, Waterlow classification and from
MUAC were found to be 78.13%, 56.25% and 78.19% respectively. Socio-economic
patterns like education of parents, land ownership, higher ethnic caste have positive effect
in nutritional status of children. In sex wise comparison boys seemed better nourish than
girls. Nutritional needs should be addressed through co-ordinated approaches involving
different sectors. Among them, main are health education, agriculture and local
development.
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Nutritional status, Situation Analysis, Children, socio-economic