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Determinants Of Wasting And Obesity Among School Aged Children Using Anthropometric Measurement
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Objectives of the Study
The main
purpose of this study is to discover the determinants of wasting and
obesity among school aged children using anthropometric measurement in
abakaliki metropolis.
Specifically, the study tends to
1. To ascertain the nutritional status of school age children.
2. Ascertain problems associated with wasting.
3. Ascertain problems associated with obesity..
4. Determine the possible solution to alleviate wasting and obesity.
Significance of the study
The
information from this study will be beneficial to the school aged
children, parents, nutritionist, health practitioners and government.
The study will benefit the school aged children because they will be
educated on the right food to eat and when this is done, the children
will grow healthy and develop properly in all ramification-
academically, socially and otherwise.
Parents will also benefit from
this study because it will enable them to have a good knowledge of
healthy foods needed for their children. Economically some of the money
parents spend on junk food and other food material which may have little
or no nutritional value will be saved for other things in the family.
To
the nutritionist: if this study will be adopted by the government it
may create job opportunity for the nutritionist, for instance the issue
of primary school lunch going on in some states in the country, if they
want to achieve this objective, the government should employ only the
qualified nutritionist to give advice on issues related to food intake
and other related vital information concerning the children’s health.
Health
practitioners will also benefit because it will give them an insight on
the causes of wasting and obesity, and how to counsel patients who are
obese and wasted.
The result of the study will be of a great benefit
to the government because they will save money they would have been
using to treat the wasted and obese children, this is so because the
study will educate the children on the right food to eat.
Scope of the study
This
study sought to find out the determinants of wasting and obesity among
school aged children using anthropometric measurement in Abakaliki
metropolis. The study aimed to ascertain the health problems associated
with wasting, health problems associated with obesity, assessing the
nutritional status of school age children and to determine the possible
solution to alleviate wasting and obesity among school age children. The
respondents will be the teachers and the school age children.
Research Questions
The following research questions were formulated to guide the study
1. What is the nutritional status of school age children
2. What are the problems associated with wasting.
3. What are the problems associated with obesity.
4.
What are the
posshttps://www.projectwriters.ng/wp-admin/post-new.phpible solutions to
alleviate wasting and obesity among school age children.
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