Anto Jobi, T (2011) Effectiveness of Sweet Rice Flakes on Anemia in Adolescent Girls at a Selected Rural School, Salem. Masters thesis, Sri Gokulam College of Nursing, Salem.
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Abstract
Anaemia is a very common problem in Indian Adolescent girls. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of sweet rice flakes on anaemia in adolescent girls at a selected rural school, Salem. The objectives of the study were to assess the level of anaemia in the adolescent girls, to evaluate the effectiveness of sweet rice flakes on the level of anaemia in the adolescent girls and to associate the level of anaemia in adolescent girls with their selected demographic variables. The investigator conducted this study in the Government High School, Varagampadi, Salem for 4 weeks. Data on demographic variables were collected from all 50 samples. The investigator went to the school every day morning and provided a 100 grams ball of sweet rice flakes at 11 am to all the samples. Then the post-test was conducted after 21 days to reassess the haemoglobin level. The investigator found that, in pre-test, 2 (4%) samples had mild level of anaemia, 24 (48%) had moderate level of anaemia and 24(48%) had severe level of anaemia. In post test, 4 (8%) samples had no anaemia, highest i.e., 36 (72%) samples had mild level of anaemia, 10 (20%) samples had moderate level of anaemia and none had severe level of anaemia. The pre-test mean score of haemoglobin level was 8.07 ± 0.76 and it was 9.95 ± 0.78 in post-test. The mean difference was 1.88. It was found that there was a difference in the haemoglobin level before and after administration of sweet rice flakes. The ‘t’ value was 25.613. Thus it became evident that there was an effectiveness of sweet rice flakes on level of anaemia in adolescent girls at p < 0.05 level. There was no significant association of the level of anaemia with their selected demographic variables except religion at p < 0.05 level. CONCLUSION: Level of anaemia is high among adolescent girls. They require some interventions to be relieved from anaemia. There are so many modes of interventions available for the treatment of a health problem and most effective among them is the primary intervention. Among the primary intervention, the nutritional interventions are the most safe and cost effective method. So the investigator implemented the administration of sweet rice flakes to reduce the level of anaemia.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Additional Information: | Reg.No.30099431 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Effectiveness, Sweet Rice Flakes, Anemia, Adolescent Girls, Selected Rural School, Salem. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Community Health Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2020 05:18 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Aug 2020 16:17 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/12857 |
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