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A Study of the Impact of COVID-19 on Nutritional Status of 3-5 Year old Children in Dausa District of Rajasthan
V. Ananta, D. Sheetal
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.12804341
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Abstract

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis both social and economic. In a country like India where already the nutritional status in young children is poor, Covid-19 can have a more adverse impact on the nutritional status of under 5 children .According The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2020’s report, 14 per cent of India’s population is undernourished and 34.7 per cent of the children aged under five in India are stunted. The report also states that 20 per cent of India’s children under the age of 5 suffer from wasting (their weight is too low for their height). According to NFHS-4 data children under 5 who are underweight (wt for age):28.1%, children under 5 who are stunted (ht for age):33.8% and children under 5 who are wasted (wt for ht):15.3%.COVID-19 pandemic poses risks on nutritional status of young children and there is concern of increase in child malnutrition, including wasting due to decline in household incomes, lockdown and interruption to health, nutrition services. The present study tried to find out the hidden impact of COVID-19 on children’s health and nutrition to find the current status of malnutrition in 3-5 year old children and to compare the current nutritional status of 3-5 year old children with pre- COVID-19 status.Methodology: The study was a cross -sectional descriptive study. It was conducted in Dausa district of Rajasthan. From theDistrict Household survey of Dausa, 5 Primary Health Centers were selected randomly and from each of the 5 PHC’s, 2Agawadis were randomly selected for the study. In each Aganwadi 10 children between 3-5 years were selected randomly so total of 100 children between the ages of 3- 5 years were chose for the study. The exclusion criteria consisted of those children who had any associated illness and those children whose parents did not give consent for the study were not toincluded in the study.Findings: The study found that proportion of underweight children increased from 32% to 41%, the proportion of Stunted increased from 39 to 42 and the proportion of wasted increased from 2% to 7%. Conclusion: By considering wt for age and ht forage, measurements of malnourished children were found nearly 40% were found below -2 SD. It was also found that, during COVID-19 period the nutritional status of children were deteriorated as compare to the previous year.Recommendations: Supply of ration should be increased from higher authority as per the target children. Amount of ration provided should be appropriate as per the age instead of equal quantity ...consider equality. Counsel parents to increase other sources of nutrients by Aaganwadi workers (AWWs.) and AWWs can do house to house check weekly and assess the dietary intake of children.

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