Assessment of Nutritional Status for Middle Adolescent’s through Anthropometrics Measurement in Shendi Secondary School

Abstract

Abstract This descriptive cross sectional community base study was conducted in Kamel Ibraheem Model School for Girls and Abdullah Ibn Abbas School for Boys; to assess the nutritional status for middle adolescents through anthropometric measurement in the period extended from August to November 2016. The study involves eighty one respondents they were selected with stratified random sampling; the data was collected by structured questionnaire which composed of 25 questions and analyzed by SPSS a statistical methods. The study showed that all respondents were knowledgeable about the important of nutritional elements during the adolescent period and majority of them (90%) knowledgeable about the nutrition; also more than half of study group were underweight, although the knowledge of study group distributed between Good and Fair knowledge about the important of nutritional elements during adolescents period. The study found that there are differences between both sex in nutritional status; in addition of that, there was significant relationship between BMI and age of studied group with (P value 0.05). Finally, the study recommended that establishing right system diet for adolescents in school noshery and adopt the total responsibility of this system also supervise it regularly and design nutrition healthy unit at school with nutritionalist to follow the nutritional status of students