Study on dietary practices among adolescent girls of working mothers
2013
Singla, Priya | Dhillon, Piverjeet Kaur
A collection of data regarding dietary practices, meal pattern and food intake for 60 adolescent girls aged 16–18 years of working mothers were selected from two schools in Ludhiana city and divided equally into two groups viz. Experimental (E) and Control (C). Nutrition counselling was done for a session of 45–60 minutes fortnightly for a period of three months for experimental group whereas the control group was not imparted with nutritional counselling. It was observed that majority of subjects i.e. 83.3 and 60 per cent were in the habit of skipping at least one meal daily in group E and C, respectively. Frequency of consumption of all the breakfast (except poori channa, bhatura channa, naan) and lunch food items (except chicken, mutton, fish) was increased and no change was observed in consumption of food items in dinner after nutrition counselling in experimental group, thus depicting a positive impact. However, non-significant changes regarding dietary practices were observed among the subjects of control group. The daily intake of cereals, pulses and roots and tubers was marginally inadequate with a per cent adequacy of 79 & 56.4, 87 & 75.5 and 88.3 & 92 in experimental and control groups, respectively. The results of present investigation suggested that there is great need to impart nutrition counselling for longer duration to improve the nutritional status of adolescent girls by including high fiber foods like whole grain cereals, whole pulses, fruits and vegetables in their daily diet.
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