Under nutrition and associated factors among adolescent girls attending school in the  rural and urban districts of Debark, Northwest Ethiopia: A community-based comparative cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Adolescence is the time of puberty in which a substantial changes in physical, mental, and emotional are observed; Nutritional requirements significantly rise as a result. Even though improving adolescent girls' nutritional status helps to break the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition, many studies in Ethiopia focus on determining the nutritional status of under-five and pregnant women and even they don't show disparities between urban and rural adolescent girls. Thus, this study was aimed at comparing the rural and urban prevalence's of stunting and thinness and their associated factors among adolescent girls attending school in Debark district, Northwest Ethiopia, 2020.

Method

A community-based comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among 792 adol

SUBMITTER: Alemu TG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8366968 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature