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Association of Mothers' Background Characteristics and Severe under Nutrition in Pre Schoolers


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1 Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, Pune, India
2 Department of Food Technology, University College of Technology (A), Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
     

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The objective of this study was to analyse the effects of age, BMI, delivery spacing, number of children, time of first breast feeding, awareness about nutrition and poverty of mothers on under nutrition of pre schoolers. It is the report of ICDS survey conducted in 2008 for under nutrition among pre schoolers. The study area included all 14 Tahasils of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra and the participants were 0-6 year old pre schoolers. The children were generally found under nourished when their mothers were not educated, from Scheduled Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC) and Nomadic Tribe (NT) castes, belonging to low to middle socio-economic groups of the age 20-24 years with lesser delivery spacing.

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Mothers, Background Characteristics, Under Nutrition, Pre Schoolers.
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Kondiram M. Nagargoje
Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, Pune, India
Kavita Waghray
Department of Food Technology, University College of Technology (A), Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Abstract


The objective of this study was to analyse the effects of age, BMI, delivery spacing, number of children, time of first breast feeding, awareness about nutrition and poverty of mothers on under nutrition of pre schoolers. It is the report of ICDS survey conducted in 2008 for under nutrition among pre schoolers. The study area included all 14 Tahasils of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra and the participants were 0-6 year old pre schoolers. The children were generally found under nourished when their mothers were not educated, from Scheduled Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC) and Nomadic Tribe (NT) castes, belonging to low to middle socio-economic groups of the age 20-24 years with lesser delivery spacing.

Keywords


Mothers, Background Characteristics, Under Nutrition, Pre Schoolers.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21048/ijnd.2016.53.1.3875