Assessment of Anthropometric Profile of adolescents (13-15 Yrs) in two different states of South India

Abstract

The study aims at ascertaining the most appropriate communication media to be used to bringing about improvement in nutritional status, attitudinal change in children for sustainable development. 300 school going children (13-15 years), 300 boys’ were selected randomly from Vijayawada (AP) and Chennai (TN) further grouped as normal weight, over weight and underweight based on BMI for age percentile. Questionnaire as the tool framed to collect data from respondents. The present findings reflect the existence of overweight and obesity in males (16.00%/18.51%) and females (31.03%/45.94%), respectively. The highest triceps was observed in Overweight girls’ (36.18) of Chennai. The lowest results were obtained in normal weight girls’ (13.28) of Vijayawada. The standard error of triceps varies from 1.46 to 0.58 of girls’ and 1.26 to 0.65 of boys’ in Vijayawada city whereas in Chennai for boys’ the SE was between 0.79 to 1.26 to and in girls’ it varies from 1.37 to 0.69. In all the categories the adolescents of Vijayawada, the SE observed was 0.26 to 0.79, however in Chennai children it was observed to be between 0.25 – 0.81. Which if continued in future, can have long lasting effect on improvement of nutritional status and healthy life style.