[Table/Fig-5]:
Sr. No |
Name of study | Study population and place |
Underweight Prevalence |
Prevalence of severe Underweight |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Current study | 750 under 5 children of from rural and urban Ambala | 41.3% | 14% |
2 | GS Boregowda et al., (2015) [11] | 602 toddlers from slums of Raipur | 45.2 | 11.8 |
3 | Stanly AM (2015) [12] | 385 under 5 children of rural area | 42.9% | 5% |
4 | Philip, et al., (2015) [13] | 438 tribal preschool children in 10 clusters of Wayanad district of Kerala | 39% | 8.2% |
5 | Srinivas Chakravarthy Bhimisetti et al., (2015) [14] | 236 under 5 children of tribal areas of Visakhapatnam | 60.2% | 12.7% |
6 | Agrawal D et al.,(2015) [15] | 458 under 5 children residing in Agra city | 42.8% | |
7 | Mane, et al., (2015) [16] | 210 preschool children aged 1-3 years of Bhadravatitaluk of Shivamogga district | 29.5% | 8.6% |
8 | Davey S et al., (2014) [17] | 450 children between the age group 0-5 years of Delhi slums | 57.8%. | |
9 | Dasgupta A et al., (2014) [18] | 113 under-five children of Nasibpur Union Health Centre | 17.7% |