Abstract
Anaemia is one of the significant public health problem among children in the
world especially in those who live in rural communities having low socioeconomic
status. This cross sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence of
anaemia in children of rural communities of Punjab from January 2016 to July
2016. The children were selected from Services hospital, Lahore and District
hospital Sharqpur, Dist. Sheikhupura. A total of 500 samples of children were
collected. Questionnaire was designed to collect information for studying
variables regarding age, gender, father’s occupation, parent’s education, child’s
family income etc. Their blood samples were collected and analyzed to find out
the level of Haemoglobin, RBC’s, WBC’s, platelets, MCV, MCH and haematocrit
specifically. Statistical analysis was done by using SPSS (version 13). Among the
500 subjects, according to haemoglobin level 130 subjects (26%) were normal
whereas 370 (74%) were anaemic. It was found that 120 (24%) were mild
anaemic, 151 subjects (30%) were moderate anaemic, and 99 subjects (20%)
were severely anaemic. It has been concluded that the prevalence of anaemia
was considerably high in children below the age of 12 years living in rural
communities. It has been concluded that haematological parameters were greatly
altered in anaemic patients
SAIMA SHARIF, SHAGUFTA NAZ, RIDA IRAM, FARKHANDA MANZOOR, TASNIM FARASAT, MUHAMMAD SAQIB. (2017) Prevalence of Anaemia in Children of Rural Areas of Punjab, Biologia – Journal of Biological Society of Pakistan, Volume 63 (II), Issue (II).
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