Community Based Survey on the Child Development
Ashwini Kumar Khandelwal, T. Chakraborty*, M. Baidya, P. K. Shibil and G. NageshKrupanidhi College of Pharmacy, Chikkabellandur, Carmelram Post, Bangalore- 35 India.
Abstract: Normal development in children is very essential to have a healthy life which can be given by proper diet and physical activities. The main goal of this survey was to find out the percentage under or over development of children and the main factors responsible for it. A survey was made on the basis of simple questionnaire which was filled by the children volunteers with the help of our investigation team and their teachers. The children volunteers were selected randomly from different primary school in Bangalore of age group 6-14 including both genders. All the data filled by children volunteers were collected, screened and statistically validated. The number of volunteers both males and female were M-56.09% & F-43.9% respectively and it was found that 96% of the children were under developed and 2.2% were normally developed. The main reason of under development was found to be the eating habits, not playing healthy games. Only 6.5% of children have normal diet as prescribed by paediatrician and the remaining 93.5% of children were not found to take a normal diet. The percentage of the children who do not go for playing due to home work was 84.13%. Hence awareness among parents should be created in order to regulate under development of children. They should offer a wide variety of food to ensure that their child is getting enough. The community pharmacist along with other medical professionals should join hands to educate the parents and their child for better growth in them since they are future of our nation.
Keywords: Child development; questionnaire; under developed Back to TOC