Prevalence of URTI and Growth Retardation in Government Primary School Children of Bangalore

Authors

  • Abdul Haseeb Ansari National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM)
  • Mohd. Zulkifle
  • Manchala Ramesh

Keywords:

School children, school health services, health appraisal, growth retardation, URTI, morbidities

Abstract

Children are an important part of the total community. School children constitute a large pool of children of this age group. Sickness is a major cause of school absenteeism and scholastic backwardness. To know the prevalence of URTI and growth retardation in children of Government Primary Schools of Bangalore, a one-time observational cross-sectional study was conducted in three primary schools of Kottigepalya, Bangalore. Four hundred and fifty-six children were included in the study. A complete physical examination of the children was done and deviations from normal were recorded. A large number, 69.96%, school children were found to be sick. The boys had better health status as compared to girls. The nutritional status of the boys was better as compared to girls. The prevalent morbidities in the school children were enlarged tonsils (13.60%), tonsillitis (1.10%), nasal discharge (14.69%), otitis externa (1.75%), otitis media (1.54%) (URTIs), underweight (20.39%) and stunting (growth retardation) (16.89%). Main emphasis should be given to health education, nutrition education apart from the regular educational activities in the school.

Author Biography

  • Abdul Haseeb Ansari, National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM)

    Associate Professor/ Professor

    Deptt. of Tahaffuzi wa Samaji Tib,

References

Anonymous. ICMR. Growth and Physical Development of Indian Infants and Children. Technical Report Series. No. 18. New Delhi. ICMR Publishers. 1989. 58– 59p.

Kumar N., Shekhar C., Kumar P., et al. Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 2007. 74. 1131–1132p.

Elizabeth K. E. Nutrition and Child Development. 3rd edn. Hyderabad. Paras Medical Publishers. 2004.144, 341–342, 385p.

Anonymous. NCHS. Overview of CDC Growth Charts. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Safer Healthier People. 2000. 1–25p.

Koshi E. T., Prasad B. G., Jain V. C., et al. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 1970. 58. 1742–1752p.

Sundaram M. V., Sankarnarayanan V. S., Susila R., et al. Indian Pediatrics. 1978. 15. 725–730p.

Prasad B. G. Indian Journal of Pediatrics.

16. 13–52p.

Datta S. P., Gupta S., Ghosh B. N., et al. Archives of Children Health. 1968. 10. 81p.

Ray S. C., Mazumdar K., Mukherjee P. K., et al. Achieves of Child Health. 1971. 13. 122p.

Bhagwat S., Kulkarni N., Raje S., et al. Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 2004. 29. 29–33p.

Panda P., Benjamin A. I., Shavinder S., et al. Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 2000. 25. 10–17p.

Patwari A., Aneja S., Jasrotia J. S., et al.

Indian Pediatrics. 1979. 8. 796–802p.

Semwal J., Srivastava A. K., Gupta S., et al. Indian Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine. 2006. 37. 76–81p.

Anonymous. CMA. City Manager’s Association. Ward Wise Details of Rajarajeshwari Nagar City Municipal Council, Bangalore. 2005. 1–2p.

Downloads

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1-3 (2012)

Section

Research Article

License

Declaration and Copyright Transfer Form

(to be completed by authors)

I/ We, the undersigned author(s) of the submitted manuscript, hereby declare, that the above manuscript which is submitted for publication in the STM Journals(s), is not published already in part or whole (except in the form of abstract) in any journal or magazine for private or public circulation, and, is not under consideration of publication elsewhere.

  • I/We will not withdraw the manuscript after 1 week of submission as I have read the Author Guidelines and will adhere to the guidelines.
  • I/We Author(s ) have niether given nor will give this manuscript elsewhere for publishing after submitting in STM Journal(s).
  • I/ We have read the original version of the manuscript and am/ are responsible for the thought contents embodied in it. The work dealt in the manuscript is my/ our own, and my/ our individual contribution to this work is significant enough to qualify for authorship.
  •  I/We also agree to the authorship of the article in the following order:

Author’s name                                    

 

1. ________________

2. ________________

3. ________________

4. ________________

 

We  Author(s) tick this box and would request you to consider it as our signature as we agree to the terms of this Copyright Notice, which will apply to this submission if and when it is published by this journal.