Study of Nutritional Status in the females in the Rural Areas of Aligarh

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Nutritional Status

• Registration Number: CTRI/2024/03/063712
• Lead Sponsor: Department of Tahaffuzi wa Samaji Tib

Brief Summary

The diets of women in India often too poor to meet their nutritional needs. A quarter of women of reproductive age in India are undernourished, with a body mass index of less than18.5kg/m2. It is well known that an undernourished mother inevitably gives birth to an undernourished baby, perpetuating an intergenerational cycle of under nutrition.

Five essential nutrition interventions for mothers include:

1.      Improving the quantity and nutrient level of food consumed in the household.

2.      Preventing micronutrient deficiencies and anemia.

3.      Increasing women’s access to basic nutrition and health services.

4.      Improving access to water and sanitation, health education and other facilities, by providing sanitation and hygiene education, including menstrual hygiene.

5.      Empowering women to prevent pregnancies too often and too close together.

 According to NFHS III data, more than a third (36%) of women has a BMI below 18.5, indicating a high prevalence of nutritional deficiency. Among women who are thin, 44% are moderately or severely thin. More than half of the women (55%) are anemic as depicted by NFHS III survey. Less than one-third of women in the lowest wealth quintile consume milk or curd at least once a week, as do less than half of women in the second wealth quintile. More than half of women in the three highest wealth quintiles consume milk or curd at least once a week. In the highest wealth quintile, three-quarters of women consume milk or curd at least once a week. The differentials in food consumption are even sharper for the consumption of fruit. Weekly consumption of fruit increases from 16 percent in the lowest wealth quintile to 72 percent in the highest wealth quintile.

In this regard, a study is being designed to evaluate the nutrient intake among the rural females of Aligarh district in their reproductive years along with associated health consequences and the factors which are responsible for the nutritional status.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2024-03-15
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 284

Inclusion Criteria

• Age group- 15 to 49 years.
• Healthy females 3.
• Without any disorder 4.
• Married and unmarried both 5.
• Rural area 6.
• Patients who have agreed to sign informed consent and follow up the protocol.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients below the age of 15 and above the age of 49 years 2.
• Females having pregnancy and lactations 3.
• Patients having co-morbidity like CVD with renal diseases.
• •Males and children.
• •Urban areas.
• •Patients who are not ready to sign informed consent and follow up the protocol.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of malnourished women	At baseline
Number of overweight women	At baseline
Number of obese women	At baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Healthy women of reproductive age group	Assessment of general awareness and practices of rural women regarding nutrition, health and sanitary practices

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College and Hospital; 🇮🇳 Aligarh, UTTAR PRADESH, India

Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College and Hospital

🇮🇳Aligarh, UTTAR PRADESH, India

Lovely Singh

Principal investigator

6396359982

lovely120920@gmail.com