To Study the Orientation of Anganwadi Workers on Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness in Malnutrition

Tarun R Naik ,B Baghel

doi:10.47009/ajcpn.2020.8.1.6

Abstract

Background: Malnutrition is one of the serious health problems in children. Malnourished children are more prone to frequent illness. This adversely affects their nutritional status, faltering growth and diminished learning ability. India adapted the integrated management of childhood illness strategy aiming to reduce its newborn and infant mortality burden and the main objective of the study was the orientation of anganwadi workers on IMNCI in malnutrition.Subjects and Methods:The study was observational and conducted jagdalpur Chhattisgarh. Only those who fully satisfied both the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included in the study. Permission from institutional ethics committee was obtained. Selection criteria in the present study were all children in the Anganwadi in a defined area. Result:PEM cases are more compared to controls, Malnutrition is seen in below 5 years of age group in children and more in cases group than the control group. In cases group it was 360 and control group it was 240.In 0 – 2 months of age malnutrition is more in cases than controls. Conclusion:Anganwadi workers were trained based on IMNCI and asked to educate mothers regarding health, nutrition and care seeking during illness of the children.

Highlights

Malnutrition is one of the serious health problems in children
Malnourished children have lowered resistance to infection; they are more likely to die from childhood ailments such as diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections
Malnourished children are more prone to frequent illness

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Introduction

Malnutrition is one of the serious health problems in children. Babies are thought to be polluted and bathed soon after birth to clean and purify the newborn.[3] Study of children having malnutrition, normally nourished 237, mild grade malnutrition 209, moderate grade malnutrition 129 and severe grade malnutrition 25.[4] In this study out of 4792 mothers interviewed 2729 of woman washed their hands before the birth of the baby. Selection criteria in the present study were all children in the Anganwadi in a defined area under 5year’s age. 30 Anganwadi workers were selected out of which only 25 participated in the study.

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