Nutritional Status of Adolescents in Semi-urban Community in Dukuchhap Village of Lalitpur, Nepal
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Methodology A community based descrip ve cross-sec onal study was carried out by medical students during their field placement for nd community diagnosis in Dukuchhap Village of Lalitpur from 22 th November19 December 2017. All 10-19 years adolescent popula on was included in the study. Among the total popula on (2545) study, 474 were adolescent. The data were collected using semi-structured ques onnaire. Physical and anthropometric measurement were done. Data were analyzed using of WHO Z-scores criteria and cut offs points. All the findings were compared with Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, 2011 and other researches published in different journals on related topic. Excel version 2010 and SPSS version 13.0 were used to enter and analyze data.
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