Background: Malnutrition affects the child’s physical and cognitive growth and increases the susceptibility to infections while having an adverse impact on economic growth of the country indirectly.
Methods: A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out involving 1000 children in the age group 6 to 14 years from urban and rural areas.
Results: In present study (based on Weight-for-Age criteria), majority of the study population (76.3%) were well nourished, 21.2% children were found underweight and 2.5% were overweight.
Conclusion: This study shows that malnutrition are also widely prevalent in schoolchildren in rural and urban, and it underlines the need for nutrition interventions to target them.
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
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