Effects of Dietary Diversity and Eating Behaviours on Adolescent Girl‟S Nutritional Status in Government Schools, Akaki Kality Subcity, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Haile PhD, Abebe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Girma, Solomon | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-01T09:24:14Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T08:44:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-01T09:24:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T08:44:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Adolescence is a period of rapid growth and maturation in human development that demands extra nutrients and energy to support growth. Focusing on adolescent’s nutrition, especially girls, provides a unique opportunity to break the intergenerational cycles of malnutrition. However, there is little information about adolescent eating behaviours, dietary diversification and nutritional status of adolescent girls, especially urban and school based. This study aimed to assess the effects of dietary diversity and eating behaviors on schoolgirls nutritional status in government schools in Akaki Kality sub-city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A total of 384 adolescent girls between the ages of 10 to 19 years who were registered and attended in the selected 12 government primary and secondary schools in the year 2019/2020 were selected through probabilistic two-stage sampling technique. The study used both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Descriptive, bivariate, and econometric analysis (Ordered and multinomial logistic regression) computed by STATA V14. Statistical significance was considered at p < 0.05 and the strength of statistical association was assessed by odds ratio with 95% confidence intervals. Qualitative data collected through focus discussion group discussion using a semistructured questionnaire. Mean age of schoolgirls was 15.67 years (± 1.596). Overall stunting and thinness of schoolgirls were 15.0% (60/384) and 14.1% (54/384) respectively and about 5.2%(20/384) schoolgirls were overweight and almost half of schoolgirls had low dietary diversity score with their mean (±SD) dietary diversity score of 3.61 (± 1.33). The risk factors for stunting were schoolgirls who used to drink sugary fluids [OR: 18, 95% CI (2.49- 130.89)], schoolgirls who often feel hungry in the week [OR: 5.2, 95% CI (1.95- 14.05)], schoolgirls whose family lower income status [OR: 4.97, 95% CI (2.46- 10.06)], and schoolgirls whose lower BMI/age [OR: 1.53, 95% CI (1.27- 1.84)]. Similarly, the risk factors for thinness were schoolgirls who used to drink sugary fluids [OR: 13.84, 95% CI (1.74-109.97)], schoolgirls whose family lower income status [OR: 2.29, 95% CI (1.33-3.92)], schoolgirls who used to practice daily eat on late [OR: 9.77, 95% CI (4.60- 20.72)] and irregular and who never perform enough healthy exercise [OR: 1.95, 95% CI (1.07- 3.55)]. This study provided important indicator for the nutritional status of ''tomorrow’s mothers’’ therefore; Akaki Kality subcity education office should maintain the school feeding programme to mitigate poor nutrition outcome following erratic feeding and meal skipping behaviours. Family should keep attention and watch schoolgirls eating behaviours, weight, and health status since this is the second opportunity to create feature generation through healthy growing feature mothers. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/24917 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Adolescent Girls, Stunting, Thinness, Dietary Diversity, Feel Hungry, Meal Skip, Erratic Feeding | en_US |
| dc.title | Effects of Dietary Diversity and Eating Behaviours on Adolescent Girl‟S Nutritional Status in Government Schools, Akaki Kality Subcity, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |