To determine the nutritional knowledge among teenage girls the study was undertaken on 152 college girls’ students of Musiri taluk, trichy district, Tamilnadu. A questionnaire has been prepared to collect the demographic profile of the subjects, food habits of the subjects and food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was used. Most of the subjects were within the age range of 18–21 yrs, living in nuclear family, having non vegetarian food habits and belong to middle income group. Most of the subjects were having faulty food habits; 60% of subjects eat out once a week followed by23% subjects eat out twice a week and most of them preferred to eat fast foods and carbonated beverages. Only 25% of the subjects were having good knowledge about anemia. The results show that the nutrition education intervention is required for the teenage girls to create awareness and to disseminate the knowledge related to the prevention and control of anemia.
Hemoglobin, Anemia, Food Frequency, Food Habits, Nutritional Knowledge, Nutritional disorder
