Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Anju Manocha ¹, Ruby Siwach Sangwan ²

Affiliations
1 GCG-14, Panchkula, IN
2 NDRI, Karnal, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Adolescent girls, constituting nearly one tenth of Indian population, form a crucial segment of the society. Their nutritional status will decide the well being of the present as well as future generation. The study assessed the diet quality and nutritional status of 240 rural girls between 12-18 years of age from rural areas of Panchkula and Karnal district of Haryana State. Dietary intake data were collected by three days recall method. As a result of questionnaires and interviews, food intakes for three consecutive days were collected. Intakes of cereals, pulses, ischolar_mains and tubers, and sugar and jaggery as reported by respondents were significantly lower than the prescribed Indian recommended dietary intakes (RDI). The consumption of milk and milk products and fats and oils was adequate whereas green leafy vegetables and fruits were the most limited food items. The respondents followed a two meal pattern and their diets were monotonous and cereal based. The mean daily intake of milk and milk products, pulses, green leafy vegetables, other vegetables and fruits was grossly inadequate meeting only 46%, 37%, 28%, 36% and 5% of the suggested allowances. The intake of fats and oil seeds and ischolar_mains and tubers was somewhat adequate meeting 63% and 75% of the allowances while the intake of cereals and sugar was almost adequate revealing a deficit of less than 10%. The study further revealed not only a high incidence of under nutrition but also an inadequate energy or micronutrient intake. Therefore, sustained efforts are needed to educate rural masses regarding their increased nutritional requirements during adolescence and the need of hour is to plan and implement innovative developmental programmes to address the nutrition and health needs of rural adolescent girls in a comprehensive manner.

Keywords

Dietary Intake, Diet Quality, Nutritional Status, Adolescent Girl, Rural-Communities, India.

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Pinki Ninaniya ¹, Santosh Sangwan ¹, Anju Manocha ²

Affiliations
1 Department ofHuman Development and Family Studies, COHS CCS Haryana Agrieultural University, Hisar, Haryana, IN
2 Government College for Women Seetor 14, Punehkula, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Family is the most important institute in whole society where a person related by blood with each other and this is the place of security, promise and comfort and with the help of marriage they live together. The present study was carried out in Hisar district of Haryana state. For the study 200 adolescents i.e 100 trom rural and 100 trom urban between the age group of 16-18 years were selected. Family Environment Scale developed by Bhatia and Chadha (1993) was used to assess home environment of the adolescents. Results revealed that significant differences were noted between cohesion, acceptance and caring and control aspects of family environment and living area of respondents. Results further revealed that urban respondents had better quality of family environment, as they were showing higher percentages as compare to rural respondents on all the aspects except active recreational orientation and conflict, who had showing poor quality of family environment.

Keywords

Adolescents, Family Environment, Rural, Urban.

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