Anaemia, Diet Diversity, And Risk Factors Among Adolescent Girls In The Upper Manya Krobo District

Abstract

Background Anaemia is a serious public health concern in most poor countries. Anaemia can impair adolescent development and their future birth outcomes. Nutritional deficiencies affect both children and adults and diet diversity score is a scoring tool designed by the Food and Agriculture Organization to assess dietary intake. The objective of this study is to determine anaemia, diet diversity and risk factors among adolescent girls in the Upper Manya Krobo District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Methods This is a cohort study involving a secondary data analysis of a data from a baseline cohort study as part of a larger study of adolescent financial literacy intervention among adolescent girls in the Upper Manya Krobo District in the Eastern region of Ghana. Multi-stage sampling involving cluster sampling of communities and stratified sampling of adolescents was applied during the original study. The six sub-districts were clustered by size (Large, Medium and small), one subdistrict was randomly selected from each stratum, 60 villages were clustered from the three selected sub-districts, 30 of the clusters were randomly selected for the intervention and the remaining 30 clusters were the comparative group. Results Analysis was based on 1420 out of 1431 participants, mean age was 10.9 ± 1.4, mean Hb and diet diversity score were 12.73±9.57 and 7.79±2.31, respectively. The prevalence of anaemia and inadequate DDS were 29.87% and 29.22%, respectively. current schooling status, average