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Archives of General Internal Medicine | ISSN: 2591-7951 | Volume 3
FIELD VALIDATION EXERCISE TO EVALUATE COMMUNITY BASED NAWA JATAN
INTERVENTION FOR CHILD NUTRITION
Ashish Sinha
Pt. JNM Medical College, India
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alnutrition is a one of the major social and public health concern in India. Data shows that every 3rd child
is underweight in India. There is a similar situation in Chhattisgarh with 37% children underweight. Wom-
en and child development department does annual weighing campaign i.e. vajan tyohar, through community
participation conducted through growth monitoring and provides community based supplementary nutrition
at village level through front-line anganwadi workers. Anthropometric measurement is the main tool to assess
the nutrition status of children. An initiative was taken to validate the data reported by front-line workers in
Chhattisgarh during the Nawa Jatan (“new care”) weighing campaign. A statistically representative sample of
children was selected across the state and anthropometric measurement was done by post graduate students
of community medicine department. In August 2016 dept. of WCD did a universal weighing campaign for chil-
dren and 30.13% of themwere reported as being underweight. The validation exercise reports 37.76% as being
underweight. The underweight children were followed up for next six months with special focus on their sup-
plementary nutrition by front-line workers. After six months of this intervention 41.6% improved their nutrition
status and reached normal (out of 30.13% reported underweight in August). As per validation report 39.6%
children reached normal (out of 37.76% reported underweight in August). As per WCD department the overall
program effectiveness is 41.6% in terms of improving the malnutrition status of underweight children. The val-
idation exercise plays a vital role as supportive supervision and in capacity building of front-line workers. This
exercise shows that the problem is bit more than estimated by front-line anganwadi workers. The intervention
has improved skills and work outcome of front-line workers.
Arch Gen Intern Med 2019, Volume 3 | DOI: 10.4066/2591-7951-C2-027