Impact of Nutrition Education To Mothers And Weekly Iron Supplementation On Anaemia In Rural Childre

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Impact of Nutrition Education To Mothers And
Weekly Iron Supplementation On Anaemia In Rural
Children Of Tonk

• Presenter
• Chandra kumari and Monika Jain
• Faculty of Home Science
• Banasthali University
• Rajasthan,India

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Anaemia should be taken seriously. It is more
than just tiredness, it affects the entire
body, especially in growing children
Dr. Lloyd Van Winkle
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RESEARCH QUESTION

• How nutrition education to mothers and weekly
  iron supplementation to children (6-9yrs)
  affected the iron status and knowledge towards
  nutrition in rural context.
• BACKGROUND
• Iron deficiency anaemia is one of the most
  pervasive problems in the world, found in every
  country regardless of economic progress.WHO and
  UNICEF joint report(2004) showed that there were
  50 children and women who have anaemia.

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OBJECTIVES

• This study aims to provide nutrition education
  to mothers and study prevalence of anaemia among
  rural children of Tonk.
• Improve mothers knowledge regarding nutrition.
• Improve iron status by providing iron
  supplementation (elemental iron 60 mg per tablet,
  weekly).

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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND INTERVENTION PROCESS

• Our method includes the following actions
• The study was conducted in two government primary
  schools in Newai Tehsil of Tonk district
• Nutrition education was provided to mothers.
• In order to be selected into the study the
  children had to meet the criteria i.e., they
  should not suffer from chronic disease.

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• After obtaining consent from mothers and
  schools principal, the mothers-children pairs
  were randomized into control(54) and experimental
  group (60).
• Nutrition education was provided to mothers in
  experimental group .
• Iron supplementation was provided to anaemic
  children in experimental group.

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DATA COLLECTION AND HAEMATOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT

• Pre-test
• Assessment of Hb values were obtained for all
  children by Sahlis method (experimental group).
• Assessment of nutrition related knowledge related
  to iron among mothers (experimental group).
• Post-test
• Re-assessment of nutriion knowledge(exp).
  Pre-assessment of Hb values.

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RESEARCH DESIGN

• Gr I Control Group (mothers and children pairs)
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  n54
• continue their
  routine life
• Gr II Experimental group(mothers and children)
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  n60 provided Nutrition education to
  mothers and Weekly iron supplementation to
  children.

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Prevalence of anaemia among children
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Table1Pre-trail comparison of iron nutritional
knowledge scores of mothers and blood haemoglobin
level of their children
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Table2 differences between Pre- and post trail
iron nutritional knowledge scores of mothers and
blood haemoglobin level of children
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Table 3 correlation between mothers pre- and
post- trail difference in iron nutritional
knowledge scores and corresponding level of
children
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RESULT

• Mothers who received nutrition education had
  significantly improved their knowledge on
  nutrition after intervention
• Children who received weekly iron supplementation
  had significantly improved iron status after
  intervention.

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CONCLUSION

• The result of the intervention suggested that
  nutrition information and education improved
  mothers knowledge that had direct bearing on
  child's haemoglobin level and healthy eating
  habits.
• It is imperative to explore alteration means of
  delivering nutrition education to mothers of
  children in rural areas who are at high
  nutritional risks.

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Signing Off..

• Anaemia should be taken seriously. It is
  more than just tiredness, it affects the
  entire body, especially in growing
  children Dr.
  Lloyd Van Winkle
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